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Sanofi-Aventis and Merck & Co. to Create Global Leader in Animal Health

March 9, 2010 | Natasha Alperowicz

Sanofi-Aventis (Paris) and Merck & Co., have announced that Sanofi-Aventis has exercised its option to combine its Merial unit with Intervet/Schering-Plough (Boxmeer, the Netherlands), Merck's animal health business, to create a global leader in animal...

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DuPont to Build Soybean Seed Facility

DuPont says its Pioneer Hi-Bred business will construct a commercial and parent soybean seed production facility at New Madrid County, MO with an investment of about $55...

Total to Reconfigure Dunkirk Refinery Site; Biofuel Cluster Planned

Total has, as expected, presented a plan to its French central works council to cease operations permanently at the company's Dunkirk, France refinery, in response to a decline in petroleum product demand. The refinery, a major producer of propylene, has been...

Showa Denko to Build High-Purity Cyclohexanone Plant in China

Showa Denko says its Zhejiang Quzhou Juhua Showa Electronic Chemical Materials (Quzhou, China) joint venture is building a 5000-m.t./year high-purity cyclohexanone plant at Quzhou, and the plant is expected to begin commercial production in August 2010...

Dow Plans Polyol Blends Plant in Saudi Arabia

Dow Formulated Systems, a business unit of Dow Chemical that makes polyurethane and epoxy systems, says it plans to build and operate a plant at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia under a...

Huntsman and Zamil Complete Ethyleneamines JV in Saudi Arabia

Huntsman and Zamil Group (Riyadh) say they have completed construction of a previously announced ethyleneamines joint-venture plant at Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The 27,000-m.t./year plant, which will be operated by Arabian Amines Co., a 50-50 jv, is undergoing...

Merck KGaA to Acquire Millipore for $7.2 Billion

Merck KGaA and life sciences company Millipore (Billerica, MA) say they have entered into a definitive agreement, under which Merck KGaA will acquire all outstanding shares of Millipore for $107/share in cash, or a total transaction value including net debt...

JBIC Loans $30 Million for Polycarbonate Facility in China

Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC; Tokyo), the international wing of Japan Finance Corporation (Tokyo), says it has signed a loan agreement totaling $30 million, with Lingyou Engineering Plastics (Shanghai), a joint venture set up by Mitsubishi...

Indian Petchem Project Revived

Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (HPCL; Mumbai) plans to revive the previously announced integrated refinery and petrochemical joint venture project at Vishakhapatnam, India, say press reports. The project, which was announced...

Thai Court Allows Construction to Resume on Seven Map Ta Phut Projects

More than 50 projects remain suspended at the site....

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