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US Firms Benefit from Trump China Trade Visit

15.11.2017 - Donald Trump's trade mission to China last week has generated new business opportunities for several US chemical companies, including Air Products, Honeywell UOP and Dow Chemical...

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Nufarm Buys FMC’s European Herbicides

14.11.2017 - Australian farm chemicals producer Nufarm has snapped up some more agrochemical assets in Europe, this time from US chemical company, FMC. The Melbourne group will pay $90 million...

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Braskem and Topsoe Cooperate on Bio-based MEG

13.11.2017 - Brazilian petrochemical group Braskem is cooperating with Danish catalysts producer Haldor Topsoe to develop a new route to produce MEG from sugar. The project is based on a two...

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AkzoNobel India Transfers Specialty Chemicals to Affiliate

13.11.2017 - AkzoNobel India will transfer its specialty chemicals operations to an affiliate of its parent company for 3.2 billion rupees ($49 million), according to a statement filed with the...

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Indorama Takes Portugal’s Artlant PTA, PET,

10.11.2017 - Thailand’s Indorama Ventures, the world’s largest PET producer, has agreed to buy the assets of Artlant PTA in Portugal for an undisclosed sum. The PTA plant in the Sines...

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Boehringer Ingelheim and Dicerna in NASH Pact

10.11.2017 - Germany’s Boehringer Ingelheim is partnering US company Dicerna Pharmaceuticals to develop new RNAi therapeutics for liver diseases. The research collaboration and license...

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Italmatch Buys Sudamfos do Brasil

09.11.2017 - Italian performance additives producer Italmatch Chemicals has boosted its presence in Latin America with the purchase of Sudamfos do Brasil. Located in Sao Paulo, Sudamfos do...

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Borealis Studies European PP Expansion

08.11.2017 - Major polyolefins producer Borealis is to undertake a feasibility study on a series of PP capacity increases during the next nine months. The study will assess a program of...