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August 28, 2008
Vopak, the leading tank storage company, posted a 17% increase in first-half net profits including exceptional items, to €107 million, on sales up 7%, to €454 million. Ebitda...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/13930.html
August 27, 2008
Siegfried (Zofingen, Switzerland) posted a 33% increase in first-half Ebit, to SF28.5 million on sales up 1%, to SF160 million. Earnings benefited from the sale of a pharmaceuticals...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/13850.html
August 25, 2008
Investment firm Denham Capital (Boston) says it will gain majority ownership of calcium chloride (CaCl2) and caustic soda producer CariSal (Port of Spain, Trinidad) through an equity...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/13752.html
August 25, 2008
AkzoNobel says it has agreed to sell its Crown Paints decorative paints business in the U.K. and Ireland to private equity firm Endless Investments (Leeds, U.K.). Akzo has also agreed...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/13757.html
August 25, 2008
The supervisory board of Evonik Industries has nominated Klaus Engel as chairman of the company...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/13760.html
August 25, 2008
DSM Engineering Plastics, a DSM subsidiary, has agreed to acquire the polymerization assets of Diolen Industrial Fibers (Arnhem, the Netherlands). The...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/13761.html
August 25, 2008
Kemira says it plans to sell its Galvatek (Lahti, Finland) business, which provides engineering services mostly to water treatment plants. Galvatek has 33 staff and...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/13763.html
August 25, 2008
Dow Water Solutions, a unit of Dow Chemical, says it will invest $88 million to expand its Edina water treatment facility, and a further $15 million to establish a global...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/13770.html
August 25, 2008
BASF has widened the scope of the previously announced sale of its styrenics business and announced plans to reorganize its styrenics activities in preparation for divestment. The move...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/13778.html
August 25, 2008
Ciba Specialty Chemicals says it is evaluating options for its underperforming paper chemical and its publication ink businesses, including a sale, joint ventures, and marketing and...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/13779.html
August 25, 2008
DSM Biologics, a unit of DSM, says it has signed a biopharmaceutical manufacturing agreement with biotech firm MorphoSys (Martinsried, Germany). The deal calls for DSM to develop and...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/13789.html
August 25, 2008
Roche says it has signed an agreement to sell worldwide rights of four of its pharmaceutical products to specialty pharma company Meda (Solna, Sweden) for a total of €120 million...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/13790.html
August 25, 2008
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA; Brussels) has requested more information for certain flavoring substances, as part of its evaluation of flavoring additives used in the...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/13794.html
August 25, 2008
Integration will be “the key critical success factor” for producers and consumers of aromatics and olefins during the next 10 years, given an uncertain demand outlook and...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/13799.html
August 22, 2008
Pronova Biopharma (Lysaker, Norway) says it has entered into an agreement with an undisclosed third party manufacturer for the supply of pharmaceutical intermediates, which will enable...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/13808.html
August 20, 2008
AkzoNobel says it has agreed to sell its Crown Paints decorative paints business in the U.K. and Ireland to Endless Investments (Leeds, U.K.), a private equity house. AkzoNobel has...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/uk/13714.html
August 19, 2008
Ciba Specialty Chemicals says it is evaluating options for its paper business and its publication inks business. The company says it is also in the process of planning a joint venture...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/13701.html
August 19, 2008
LyondellBasell reported a second-quarter loss from continuing operations of $16 million compared to income from continuing operations $159 million in the year-ago quarter. Results were...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/netherlands/13712.html
August 18, 2008
Management has proposed a buyout of AkzoNobel’s Crown Paints for £70 million ($138 million), according to U.K. press reports. Howard Luft, Crown Paints managing director...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/13606.html
August 18, 2008
Kemira says it may cut up to 300 jobs at its operations in Finland, 10% of its workforce there, as part of a worldwide cost-saving program. The plan targets annualized savings of more...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/13615.html
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