Keyword: Performance Chemicals

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WeylChem Announces Organizational Changes

02.09.2015 - Andreas Maier, executive vice president, has been appointed as general manager of the newly formed business segment Consumer Care within the WeylChem Group with effect from...

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DuPont and Trian Fight for Their Director Candidates

14.04.2015 - Trian Fund Management, investment vehicle of DuPont activist shareholder Nelson Peltz, which currently owns shares in the chemical giant worth around $1.8 billion, has urged the...

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DuPont to Start Low-Cost TiO2 Plant in Early 2016

13.11.2014 - DuPont has said it remains on track to complete the planned expansion of its existing high-efficiency, low-cost titanium dioxide (TiO2) facility in Altamira, Mexico in 2015 and...

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BASF Selling Textile Chemicals Business to Archroma

17.10.2014 - BASF is selling its textile chemicals business for an undisclosed sum to Archroma, a Reinach, Switzerland-based company owned by private equity investor SK Capital Partners.Still...

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Essential Ingredients

08.05.2014 - Understanding The Source - Classification of today's supply chain - regarding all organic chemicals involved in the manufacturing of an API - is a useful tool for demonstrating...

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Lanxess Expects Net Loss for Full Year 2013

27.02.2014 - German chemical producer Lanxess is apparently much deeper in the financial mire than initially believed. The specialty chemicals company said on Feb. 26 that impairment tests...

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A Brand-New Celanese

16.01.2014 - Strategy - When Mark Rohr became Chairman and CEO of Celanese in 2012, he proclaimed that he wants the company to get closer to its customers and better respond to their needs. A...

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DuPont Taps Vergnano to Head Spin-off

10.01.2014 - DuPont has named Mark Vergnano, head of the Performance chemicals division since 2008, as CEO of the independent company it is creating through the carve-out of the division. The...