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The latest chemical industry news

Private Equity Firm Buys Stake in Univar

5:07 PM EDT | September 2, 2010 | Nancy Seewald

Private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R; New York) says it has agreed to acquire a 42.5% stake in Univar in a deal that values Univar at about $4.2 billion CVC Capital Partners (New York) will retain a 42.5% stake in Univar, while Univar...

Brazil Fines Industrial Gases Firms in Antitrust Case

4:16 PM EDT | September 2, 2010 | Vincent Valk

The Brazilian Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE), that country's antitrust body, has fined five industrial gases firms for forming a cartel to limit competition, according to Brazilian media reports. The firms named by CADE include Air...

VCI Lifts Forecast for Chemicals Output in Germany

Chinese Companies Eyeing Potash Bid, Reports Say

AkzoNobel to Become Main Paint Supplier to Walmart

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THIS WEEK 

Fluorochemicals: Halocarbon Legacy Thrives in Modern World

Robert Ehrenfeld, a pioneering U.S. chemist, played an integral role in the development of fluorine-based materials for the Manhattan Project- the first atomic weapons program - in the 1940s. He then discovered that no company could readily supply the fluorochemicals required...


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Gaining Local Perspectives on a Global Business

August 31, 2010 | By TONI LANGLINAIS AND VARUN RATTA

A recent survey featuring 1,300 companies conducted jointly by Accenture and the American Chemistry Council (ACC) has reveals that chemical firms will have to be more deliberate if they are to meet the varied expectations of customers across regions. The survey also found that building operational excellence that enables customers to deliver the basics of product performance, quality and supply reliability is key to customer’s success....

Update on California's Green Chemistry Requirements

August 27, 2010 | By PETER HSIAO

By Peter Hsiao, partner with law firm Morrison & Foerster (Los Angeles), and colleagues William F. Tarantino, and Andrea L. Tozer.     In a highly anticipated new development, California’s Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) issued its draft Regulation for Safer Consumer Product Alternatives to implement its innovative Green Chemistry regulatory program. The program reflects a...

Americas

American Acryl Restarts Acrylic Acid Plant at Bayport

6:37 AM EDT | September 2, 2010 | Natasha Alperowicz

Americal Acryl, an equally owned joint venture between Nippon Shokubai's U.S. subsidiary NA Industries and Arkema, has restarted its...

Europe

H.C. Starck Sells Its Conductive Polymers Business

9:14 AM EDT | September 2, 2010 | Kerri Walsh

 Precious metals firm Heraeus (Hanau, Germany) has agreed to buy the global conductive polymers business of H.C. Starck (Goslar, Germany). Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The conductive polymers business sells liquid polymer chemicals...
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Asia/Pacific

Uhde Inventa-Fischer Awarded Nylon 6 Plant Contract in China

8:32 AM EDT | September 2, 2010 | Natasha Alperowicz

Uhde Inventa-Fischer has signed a contract with Hangzhou Hangding Nylon Tech. Co., a subsidiary of Sanding Holding Group, to build a nylon 6 polymerization plant. The...

Mideast/Africa

Sabic Affiliate to Build the Mideast's First Oleochemicals Plant

8:00 AM EDT | August 31, 2010 | Ian Young

The company has awarded a technology and engineering contract to Lurgi....

Viewpoint

Fertile M&A Ground

7:23 PM EDT | August 19, 2010 | Robert Westervelt

Demand for fertilizers, and the assets that make them, continue to surge in 2010. BHP Billiton (Melbourne, Australia), the world’s biggest mining company, has launched a $38.6-billion hostile bid to acquire Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (PotashCorp), the...

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