06.11.2017
- As part of its first financial report, the chemical industry’s newest giant, the merged DowDuPont, has announced it has rolled back its timetable for splitting into three...
02.11.2017
- To settle a long-running lawsuit over alleged violations of the US Clean Air Act, oil and petrochemicals titan ExxonMobil has agreed to spend $300 million on upgrading eight US...
02.11.2017
- A court in the US state of California has reversed a verdict against drugmaker Johnson & Johnson in the ongoing litigation over whether the company’s talc productions can be linked...
01.11.2017
- Will LyondellBasell and Braskem be the next two companies to enter a marriage of convenience? It is yet unclear how much weight a report by the US financial newspaper Wall Street...
31.10.2017
- Following Swiss speciality chemicals producer Clariant’s decision last week to back away from the $20 bn merger with Huntsman announced in May – citing uncertainty over gaining the...
30.10.2017
- Confirming market rumors, AkzoNobel said it has entered what it called “constructive discussions” with Axalta Coating Systems about a merger, adding that the combination of the two...
30.10.2017
- The rocky road to completion of the merger between Germany’s Linde and Praxair of the US just got a little rockier, it appears, but executives of the two industrial gases giants...
27.10.2017
- In a move that surprised some but others had anticipated, the transatlantic multi-billion dollar fusion of the two specialty chemicals producers Clariant of Switzerland and...
