21.07.2015
- Private equity investor OpenGate Capital has received the EU green light for its planned takeover of Kem One Innovative Vinyls, the plastics processing side of the former Arkema...
02.07.2015
- Umicore and Solvay completed the sales of their respective 50% stakes in the joint venture SolviCore to Japanese chemical producer Toray on Jul. 1. The company will continue to be...
02.07.2015
- Along with the official launch of the new Ineos-Solvay PVC joint venture Inovyn and BASF’s sale of its 25% stake in SolVin, another PVC jv, to Solvay, BASF has completed the sale...
02.07.2015
- Following clearance of the merger by the European Commission in mid-June, PVC producer Inovyn, the new 50:50 joint venture of Ineos and Solvay, officially started trading on Jul. 1...
30.06.2015
- Amine Tahiri has joined the Development Services Sales team of Recipharm as sales director for France with effect from July 1, 2015. Tahiri has more than 16 years of experience in...
12.06.2015
- Solvay has begun production at its two new large-scale “on-pipe” alkoxylation plants in Europe and Asia. Both facilities produce alkoxylates used in Solvay’s Novecare specialty...
10.06.2015
- The European Commission has given its final approval to the merger of the Ineos and Solvay vinyls activities into a 50:50 joint venture called Inovyn. With headquarters in London...
08.06.2015
- Solvay has opened its first fully dedicated Industrial Biotechnology Laboratory (IBL) in Paulinia, Brazil. The Belgian chemical producer said the lab is designed to boost the...
