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April 3, 2013
Arkema has acquired a majority stake in AEC Polymers (Bordeaux, France), a manufacturer of structural adhesives, Arkema announced today. The acquisition is in line with Arkema’s...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Arkema-buys-majority-in-French-structural-adhesives-manufacturer_50916.html
April 3, 2013
Lanxess says it is investing about €10 million ($12.8 million) at the company’s Leverkusen site, to build a new production line for weakly acidic cation exchange resins of...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/germany/Lanxess-expands-ion-exchange-resin-facilities-at-Leverkusen_50912.html
April 2, 2013
Dynea Chemicals Oy says it has  completed the previously announced sale of shares of Dynea Holding GmbH, Dynea Austria GmbH, and Krems Chemie Service GmbH to Arirang Holdings Ltd...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Dynea-closes-AICA-deal_50910.html
April 2, 2013
Brenntag Schweizerhall (Basel, Switzerland), a subsidiary of Brenntag, will invest in a new sulfuric acid dilution plant at the Infrapark Baselland industrial park in Muttenz...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Brenntag-invests-in-sulfuric-acid-dilution-plant-in-Switzerland-to-supply-Bayer-CropScience_50883.html
April 2, 2013
Clariant says it has acquired the nanosilver ink technology platform developed under the trademark Bayink, from Bayer. The transaction comprises all patents, know-how, and materials...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/switzerland/Clariant-acquires-nanosilver-ink-technology-from-Bayer_50879.html
March 28, 2013
Huntsman says it is investing a combined $135 million at two of its methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) manufacturing facilities—specifically, increasing capacity at its...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Huntsman-invests-$135-million-in-MDI-updates_50686.html
March 28, 2013
Vinyls company Kem One (Lyon, France) has, as expected, been put into receivership by the commercial court of Lyon. The move follows a filing for insolvency with the court by Kem One's...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Kem-One-enters-receivership-Arkema-denies-responsibility_50786.html
March 28, 2013
Perstorp and Johnson Matthey say that Johnson Matthey has acquired Perstorp’s formaldehyde technology and catalyst business, Formox (Perstorp, Sweden), for 1.05 billion Swedish...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/uk/Johnson-Matthey-acquires-Perstorps-formaldehyde-technology-and-catalyst-business_50783.html
March 27, 2013
Dow Chemical says that the previously announced Enlight polyolefin encapsulant film production plant at Schkopau, Germany, has been completed and the first commercial quantities have...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/germany/Dow-starts-up-polyolefin-encapsulant-film-production-in-Germany_50760.html
March 27, 2013
BASF says it will combine its water solutions, oil field solutions, and mining solutions businesses, effective 1 April, to create a new global business unit. The restructuring involves...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/BASF-merges-water-oil-field-and-mining-businesses-cuts-215-jobs_50764.html
March 27, 2013
The European Commission has launched an in-depth investigation into the planned acquisition by Nynas (Stockholm) of refinery assets at Harburg from Shell Deutschland Oil. The...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/EU-launches-in-depth-probe-into-acquisition-of-Shell-base-oils-plant-in-Germany_50763.html
March 27, 2013
The European Commission has approved the proposed acquisition of Petrochem Carless (Leatherhead, UK) by Haltermann Holding (Hamburg). The commission says its investigation...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/European-Commission-approves-Haltermanns-acquisition-of-Petrochem-Carless_50762.html
March 27, 2013
Bayer says it has appointed Markus Steilemann as the new head of its polycarbonates business unit. He succeeds Michael Koenig, who will join the board of management of Bayer on 1...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/germany/Bayer-appoints-new-head-of-polycarbonates-business_50759.html
March 26, 2013
Troubled vinyls company Kem One (Lyon, France) was scheduled to present to a Lyon court this morning an "application to default on its debts," French media reports say...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Vinyls-company-Kem-One-applies-to-default-on-its-debts_50738.html
March 26, 2013
“I think, from an Ineos point of view, we’ll look at whether we can underpin any of our assets in Europe with cheap feedstocks in one form or another from the United States," says Jim Ratcliffe, chairman of Ineos....
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/AFPM-IPC-Ineos-shifting-resources-to-US-Ratcliffe_50731.html
March 26, 2013
Perstorp (Perstorp, Sweden) says it has entered into a partnership with Purac (Gorinchem, Netherlands), a leading player in natural food preservation and biobased chemicals, for...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/sweden/Perstorp-and-Purac-in-partnership-to-develop-caprolactone-lactide-copolymers_50500.html
March 26, 2013
The European General Court (Luxembourg) has confirmed the European Chemical Agency's (ECHA; Helsinki) approach to identifying persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic substances (PBTs)...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/EU-court-upholds-ECHA-approach-to-identifying-PBTs-and-vPvBs_50476.html
March 25, 2013
Kem One (Lyon, France), a manufacturer of polyvinyl chloride, will file for insolvency tomorrow, according to various reports in the French press. The filing follows a works council...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Reports-Kem-One-to-file-for-insolvency_50720.html
March 25, 2013
Cabot Corp. says it has completed a fumed silica expansion at its Barry, Wales, facility, part of a 3-year plan started in 2011 to increase Cabot's global fumed metal oxide capacity by...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Cabot-expands-fumed-silica-capacity_50718.html
March 25, 2013
Myriant (Quincy, MA) and Bayegan Group (Istanbul) have signed a broad collaboration agreement to commercialize Myriant’s biobased succinic acid in markets across the...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/AFPM-IPC-Myriant-and-Bayegan-sign-broad-distribution-agreement-for-biobased-succinic-acid_50717.html
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