17.02.2014
- In a combined share and cash deal, UK Engineering group AMEC has signed a definitive agreement to take over Swiss-based competitor Foster Wheeler. The transaction is expected to...
30.01.2014
- In a conference call to present financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2013, Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris defended his strategy of integrating commodity...
24.01.2014
- BASF will cut a total of 250 jobs in moves to improve the efficiency of its Performance Chemicals segment by the end of 2015. As part of plans to adjust production to demand in its...
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...
09.01.2014
- U.S. plastics compounder and distributor A. Schulman has paid $15.1 million to acquire Prime Colorants, a manufacturer of custom colors and additive concentrates in Franklin...
08.01.2014
- At the end of December 2013, AkzoNobel sold its Primary Amides business and a manufacturing facility at Kyungju, South Korea, for an undisclosed sum to PMC Group, based at Mount...
08.01.2014
- Swiss specialty chemicals producer Clariant has completed the sale of its sale of its Detergents & Intermediates business to private equity group International Chemical Investors...
07.01.2014
- BASF has won the 2013 Product Line Strategy Leadership Award of Frost & Sullivan for its coatings raw material portfolio. The international consultancy said the Ludwigshafen...
