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Mitsubishi Plastics acquires full ownership of engineering plastics business
Mitsubishi Plastics (Tokyo) says that it has acquired a 50% stake in Aquamit (Amsterdam) from the Quadrant Founders Group, and Aquamit has now become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Plastics, as of 21 May 2013. Aquamit is a holding company of Quadrant...

Report: Stockholm Convention agrees on phaseout of HBCD
The sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention has agreed to begin phasing out the use of hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD) in little more than a year, according to a report from Agence France-Presse. HBCD is used in furniture...

Ashland-Clariant JV sold casting products to Iran
ASK Chemicals, a 50-50 joint venture between Ashland and Clariant, sold granulate, coatings, and hot top metal casting products to Iranian government entities, Ashland said in a regulatory filing. The jv sold about €790,000 ($1.04 million) worth of the...

Clariant's former businesses named Archroma
Clariant’s former textile chemicals, paper specialties, and emulsion businesses, which the company agreed to sell to SK Capital on 27 December, will be named Archroma after the closing of the transaction, the companies said today. Archroma will be a...

Clariant more than doubles net profit on flat sales, confirms 2015 targets
Clariant’s first-quarter net profit from continuing operations more than doubled to 38 million Swiss francs ($40.53 million) compared with SF16 million in the year-earlier period, the company announced today. Sales were flat advancing 2% in local...

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