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Mexichem cleared to acquire PolyOne's specialty PVC assets, bidding for Solvay's Indupa assets
Mexichem (Tlalneplantla, Mexico) has received clearance from FTC—and its equivalent body in Germany—for Mexichem's acquisition of the polyvinyl chloride (PVC) specialty resins business of PolyOne, the company has announced. PolyOne entered into an...

Bayer to acquire German pharmaceutical company
Bayer says it has signed an agreement to acquire all of the shares of Steigerwald Arzneimittelwerk (Darmstadt, Germany), a privately held pharmaceutical company specializing in pharmacy-only herbal medicines. Financial details of the deal have not been...

Merck KGaA increases commitment to venture capital fund for start-up biotech firms to €100 million
Merck KGaA says it will increase its commitment to its strategic corporate venture capital fund MS Ventures to €100 million ($129 million). MS Ventures is the corporate venture capital fund of Merck Serono, the biopharmaceutical division of Merck. MS...

LyondellBasell to close HDPE Unit in Germany
LyondellBasell will shut down a 100,000-m.t./year high-density polyethylene (HDPE) unit in Wesseling, Germany, in the third quarter....

Bayer CropScience plans Mobile, AL herbicide plant
Bayer CropScience says it will build a world-scale glufosinate-ammonium herbicide production plant near Mobile, AL, to help meet growing demand for glyphosate alternatives. "The use of glufosinate-ammonium, marketed as Liberty herbicide and used...

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