05.03.2019
- German chemicals producer Evonik has agreed to sell its Methacrylates business to private equity investor Advent International for an enterprise value of €3 billion. The plans...
04.03.2019
- At the beginning of March, Messer Industries, new joint venture of Germany-based industrial gases producer Messer and private equity group CVC Capital Partners, completed the...
01.03.2019
- Ineos has selected its Hull, Saltend, UK, site as the location for its long planned 300,000 t/y vinyl acetate monomer (VAM) plant, which will cost £150 million and form part of a...
01.03.2019
- Nouryon – the former AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals – has licensed its carbon disulfide (CS2) manufacturing technology to an unnamed “leading viscose fibers manufacturer” in...
28.02.2019
- The Board of Directors of Tempe, Arizona-based electronic chemicals supplier Versum Materials has rejected Merck's unsolicited and non-binding proposal to acquire Versum for $48...
27.02.2019
- BASF and Letter One, a Luxembourg-based consortium of Russian investors, are anticipating regulatory approvals for the merger of their oil and gas businesses soon, BASF said at its...
27.02.2019
- As the first of a new series of court cases brought by cancer patients against the former agrochemicals giant Monsanto – now part of Bayer – got under way in San Francisco on Feb...
26.02.2019
- Thailand-based polyester giant Indorama Ventures (IVL) has completed its acquisition of M&G Fibras Brasil, based at Cabo de Santo Agostinho. The plant that belonged to insolvent...
