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December 24, 2012
Nippon Shokubai says that it has received approval from authorities to restart operations at certain production facilities in the company’s manufacturing complex at Himeji...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Nippon-Shokubai-restarts-a-few-facilities-at-Himeji-site_48622.html December 24, 2012
Invista says it has acquired a manufacturing facility at Born, the Netherlands previously operated by VSL Born (Born), which focuses on the compounding and recycling of polyamides used...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Invista-acquires-compounding-site-in-the-Netherlands_48619.html December 21, 2012
The Ultrapar Group, parent company of Oxiteno (São Paulo), has announced it plans invest a total of 1.44 billion reais ($676 million) in 2013. The Ultrapar group also...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Oxitenos-2013-investments-focus-on-US-Mexico_48604.html December 21, 2012
Ecolab’s $2.2-billion acquisition of oilfield services firm Champion Technologies is now expected to close by 28 February 2013, as opposed to the end of this year as originally...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Ecolab-Champion-push-back-acquisition-close-date_48603.html December 21, 2012
Sigma-Aldrich says its wholly owned SAFC Hitech subsidiary has signed an agreement to form a 50-50 joint venture with Soulbrain (Songnam, South Korea), a publicly traded specialty...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/SAFC-Hitech-to-form-jv-with-Korean-specialty-chemicals-firm_48600.html December 21, 2012
DIC (Tokyo) says its wholly owned printing inks manufacturing and sales subsidiary DIC Graphics (Jakarta) on 18 December acquired the phthalocyanine blue crude and pigments...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/DIC-acquires-pigments-business-in-Indonesia_48598.html December 20, 2012
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has rejected industry’s request for a full court rehearing of four landmark greenhouse gas (GHG) legal cases dealing...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/US-appeals-court-rejects-industry-petition-for-rehearing-in-key-GHG-cases_48567.html December 20, 2012
Sumitomo Chemical says that its wholly owned Valent BioSciences (Libertyville, IL) subsidiary has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Pace International (Seattle, WA), a global...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Sumitomo-Chemical-subsidiary-acquires-US-agrobusiness-firm-for-$65-million_48517.html December 20, 2012
Braskem Idesa (Mexico City), a joint venture of Brazil’s Braskem, and Mexico’s Grupo Idesa, say they have received final approval for a total of $3.2 billion in financing...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Braskem-Idesa-finalizes-$3-2-billion-in-financing-for-Ethylene-XXI_48522.html December 20, 2012
Evonik Industries says it plans to increase its production capacities for precipitated silica at the company's Chester, PA site by about 20,000 m.t./year. Evonik's new facility, in...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Evonik-to-expand-precipitated-silica-capacity-at-US-site_48519.html December 19, 2012
Four companies are in competition to acquire Innova, the Brazilian styrenics firm owned by Petrobras, according to Valor Económico, a leading financial newspaper in Brazil...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Report-Firms-compete-to-acquire-Petrobras-styrenics-unit_48500.html December 19, 2012
Brazil state oil company Petrobras (Rio de Janeiro) says it has entered into an agreement with mining company Vale (Rio de Janeiro) to acquire Araucária Nitrogenados, in...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Petrobras-to-acquire-Vales-Araucaria-Nitrogenados-for-$234-million_48497.html December 19, 2012
Ineos says it has renewed an agreement with BP for the supply of acetic acid feedstock to Ineos's vinyl acetate monomer (VAM) plant at the Saltend Chemicals Park in Hull, UK. BP...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Ineos-renews-agreement-with-BP-for-acetic-acid-supplies-to-VAM-plant-in-UK_48494.html December 19, 2012
BASF says it is extending, until 18 January 2013, the offer period for the company's acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding shares of Pronova BioPharma (Lysaker...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/BASF-extends-offer-period-for-the-acquisition-of-Pronova-BioPharma_48492.html December 19, 2012
BASF and Gabriel Performance Products (Ashtabula, OH), a specialty chemical company, say they have signed a contract to transfer the BASF merchant–based epoxy curative business...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/BASF-sells-epoxy-curative-business-to-US-firm_48491.html December 19, 2012
Mitsubishi Rayon says it has formed a business alliance with SK Chemicals (Songnam, Korea) in order to develop and expand the carbon fiber prepreg business in Asian countries. The...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Mitsubishi-Rayon-SK-Chemicals-form-alliance-for-carbon-fiber-prepreg-business_48484.html December 19, 2012
Yara International (Oslo) said today that it had entered into an agreement to acquire Bunge's fertilizer retail business in Brazil, significantly strengthening Yara's fertilizer...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Yara-to-acquire-Bunges-fertilizer-business-in-Brazil-for-$750-million_48206.html December 19, 2012
ReachCentrum, a subsidiary of Cefic, says that nine manufacturers of expanded polystyrene (EPS) have joined forces to establish a hexabromocyclododecane (HBCDD)-authorization...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Nine-EPS-manufacturers-establish-consortium-for-Reach-authorization-of-HBCDD_48466.html December 19, 2012
Solvay says it has decided to adjust its worldwide soda-ash production capacities in line with differentiated dynamics and cost-competitiveness considerations, to optimize its global...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Solvay-to-adjust-its-soda-ash-capacities-to-demand-output-to-rise-at-Green-River-WY_48460.html December 18, 2012
Asahi Glass said today that it has agreed to buy Adeka’s share in Kashima Chemical (Kamisu City, Japan), a producer of epichlorohydrin and allyl chloride. Kashima Chemical...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Asahi-Glass-buys-Adeka-out-of-epichlorohydrin-maker-Kashima-Chemical_48458.html |
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