12.07.2010
- Post-Lehman, European private equity has all but ignored the grimier end of life: the widget-makers, chemicals plants and facilities scrubbers that used to be mainstays of the...
23.06.2010
- Chemical industry leader BASF agreed to buy additives maker Cognis for €3.1 billion including debt, expanding into chemicals derived from crops and plants. BASF will pay Cognis's...
07.06.2010
- Haggling over liabilities is holding up an otherwise done deal between BASF and the private equity owners of Cognis, several sources told Reuters. Talks over the sale of the...
14.04.2010
- U.S specialty chemicals maker Lubrizol has joined other potential bidders in talks to buy German additives group Cognis , a source close to the matter told Reuters. The Financial...
12.04.2010
- The owners of Cognis, the German maker of additives for cosmetics and detergents, are in talks with several parties including BASF to sell it, two people close to the negotiations...
01.04.2010
- Global specialty chemicals supplier Cognis has signed an agreement that it intends to sell its UV acrylates business to IGM Resins, based in Waalwijk, The Netherlands. The UV...
31.03.2010
- Fostering Success - Today's paints and coatings market poses many challenges for both manufacturers and suppliers. Increasingly stricter regulatory requirements coupled with...
17.03.2010
- The owners of Cognis have launched a fresh campaign to sell the German maker of additives for cosmetics and detergents outright even as the firm prepares to go public, sources said...
