Keyword: Fine Chemicals & Specialty Chemicals

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Thomas Swan Buys US Manufacturing Plant

18.10.2017 - UK specialty chemicals company Thomas Swan has bought a manufacturing facility in Opelika, Alabama, USA, from Apollo Chemicals, part of Mount Vernon Chemicals. Financial details...

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Lonza Buys Shire US Site

11.10.2017 - Swiss specialty chemicals company Lonza has acquired Shire’s clinical-stage mammalian manufacturing site in Hayward, California, USA, boosting its cGMP capacity and supplementing...

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Lanxess to Close Dutch Base Oils Plant

06.10.2017 - German specialty chemicals group Lanxess has announced it will close its base oils plant in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, by November 2018 at the latest. Lanxess acquired the...

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H.I.G. Capital Buys Back Vantage Specialty Chemicals

06.10.2017 - US-headquartered private equity group H.I.G. Capital has signed an agreement to acquire Vantage Specialty Chemicals Holdings, buying back a business it sold to The Jordan Company...

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Kolb and Stockmeier Tighten their Partnership for the Distribution of Nonionic Surfactants in Germany

04.10.2017 - Since October 2016, Stockmeier Chemie represents the surfactant portfolio of Kolb as its preferred partner in Germany. After 10 months of successful business development the...

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Science that Enables Solutions for Clean Air, Improved Health and Sustainable Use of Resources

27.09.2017 - 2017 marks the 200th anniversary of UK specialty chemical and technology group Johnson Matthey which – back in 1817 – began as assayers, testing the purity of precious metals. In...

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Azelis Buys Swiss Specialties Distributor

27.09.2017 - Azelis has acquired Georges Walther, a family-owned specialty chemicals distributor based in Pfäffikon, Switzerland, for an undisclosed sum. Most of Georges Walther’s sales revenue...

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AkzoNobel Appoints CFO

26.09.2017 - AkzoNobel has hired a new chief financial officer to replace Maëlys Castella who stepped down from the role earlier this month for health reasons. Maarten de Vries, most recently...