Keyword: Plastics and Polymers
News
09.10.2017
- Through the sale of an additional 6.9% of engineering plastics producer Covestro for €1 billion, Bayer has ceded control of its former group company known earlier as Bayer...
Markets & Companies
01.10.2017
- The 2017 series of the European Youth Debating Competition targeting young students aged 16 to 19 throughout Europe concluded with the finals in Berlin, on October 1. Organized by...
News
29.09.2017
- US performance materials and plastics company Trinseo, formerly part of Dow Chemical, has opened a new research and development facility in Terneuzen, the Netherlands. Trinseo has...
News
13.09.2017
- As part of its cash-raising package for the $66 billion Monsanto takeover, Germany’s Bayer has further reduced its stake in engineering plastics producer Covestro, its former...
News
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...
News
04.09.2017
- Swedish specialty chemicals company Perstorp is upgrading its peracetic plant in Warrington, UK. The upgrade will see a new still and reactors installed, replacing existing...
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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...
News
19.06.2017
- US styrenics producer Trinseo has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Italy’s family-owned API Applicazioni Plastiche Industriali in an all-cash deal. This will be the...
