Keyword: Fine Chemicals & Specialty Chemicals
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13.09.2017
- Following a four-month portfolio review prompted by activist shareholders, new US chemical heavyweight DowDuPont has responded to some of the pressure. The company said it now...
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07.09.2017
- Nagase America, part of Japan’s Nagase Group, has acquired Fitz Chem, a specialty chemicals distributor headquartered in Itasca, Illinois, USA, for an undisclosed sum. Fitz Chem...
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29.08.2017
- Platform Specialty Products, which has been under pressure from activist investors, has announced it will split into two separate companies roughly equal in size. Specialty...
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17.08.2017
- The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which is reviewing the planned merger of Swiss specialty chemicals producer Clariant with US peer Huntsman, has sent the companies a request...
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15.08.2017
- New York-based private equity group Arsenal Capital Partners has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Cyalume Technologies Holdings for $45 million in cash. Headquartered in...
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08.08.2017
- In its second North American acquisition this year, IMCD is to acquire Canadian and US specialty chemicals and ingredients distributor, L.V. Lomas. Financial terms were not...
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02.08.2017
- Swiss specialty chemicals producer Clariant has hired US investment bank Goldman Sachs as an additional advisor to fend off a campaign by activist investor White Tale to stop the...
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31.07.2017
- German specialty chemicals producer Evonik said it will expand capacity for fumed silica at its Antwerp, Belgium, site up to 2019. The new plant, which will require investment in...
