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H.B. Fuller to acquire Brazilian adhesives firm Plexbond Quimica

9:33 PM MDT | May 20, 2013 | Deepti Ramesh

H.B. Fuller says it has signed an agreement to purchase adhesives company Plexbond Quimica (Curitiba, Brazil), a provider of chemical polyurethane specialties and polyester resins. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Plexbond Quimica...


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Obituary: Haldor Topsøe passes away

Haldor Frederik Axel Topsøe, founder of Haldor Topsøe (Copenhagen) passed away today, shortly before his 100th birthday, after a brief illness, the company and his family announced today. He remained actively involved in the daily...

ACC study says shale-based chemical investment to create 530,000 jobs in US

The report examines 97 chemical and plastics projects publicly announced through the end of March....

Suppliers Day 2013: Optimistic outlook amid shifting consumer preferences

Personal-care chemical manufacturers are optimistic about the industry’s outlook despite weakness in Western Europe, attendees at New York Society of Cosmetic Chemists’ Suppliers Day, held last week at Edison, NJ, said. Buoyed by an improving...

DOE authorizes Freeport LNG to export to non-FTA countries

The company will be allowed to export at a rate of up to 1.4 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) for a period of 20 years....

Koch Nitrogen to invest $1 billion in fertilizer complex at Enid, OK

Koch Nitrogen has announced plans to build a new urea plant at its Enid, OK, facility. In addition, the company is revamping existing production processes at the facility. Combined, the investments are estimated at $1 billion and are expected to increase...

Vietnam gives preliminary approval for PTT's refinery and aromatics project

PTT (Bangkok) has received preliminary approval from the local government of Binh Dinh Province, of Vietnam, to proceed to the next stage of its previously announced proposal to build an oil refinery and aromatics complex in the Nhon Hoi Economic Zone...

BP receives FTC clearance to sell Carson refinery and marketing assets to Tesoro

BP says it has received clearance from the FTC to sell its Carson, CA, refinery and southwest US retail assets to Tesoro and expects to complete the sale in the second quarter of this year. Under the terms of the deal, announced in August 2012, the...

Ma'aden restarts ammonia and diammonium phosphate plants

Saudi Arabian Mining Co.’s (Ma’aden; Riyadh) subsidiary Ma’aden Phosphate Co. (MPC) has restarted its ammonia manufacturing complex at Ras Az Zawr, Saudi Arabia, the company announced today. The 1.1-million m.t./year ammonia plant was...

Kaneka records rise in profits

Kaneka (Osaka) recorded a 72.6% rise in net profits for its fiscal year ended 31 March compared with the previous fiscal year, to ¥9.32 billion ($91 million). Full-year sales increased 1.5%, to ¥476.4 billion.  During the fiscal year, the global...

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