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Sika acquires UK construction chemicals firm Everbuild Building Products
Sika (Baar, Switzerland) has acquired Everbuild Building Products (Leeds, UK), the United Kingdom’s largest independent manufacturer of sealants, adhesives, and construction chemicals, Sika announced today. Everbuild has annual sales of more than 90...

Myriant and Davy Technologies produce bioBDO and THF at Teesside, UK
Myriant and Johnson Matthey Davy Technologies (JM Davy), a leading chemical licensing company, today announced the successful production of biobutanediol (bioBDO) and tetrahydrofuran (THF) made from Myriant’s biosuccinic acid. The qualification work was...

Johnson Matthey's environmental technologies division posts higher annual profits, lower sales
Johnson Matthey's (London) environmental technologies division posted a 7% increase in underlying operating profit for the fiscal year ended 31 March 2013, to £226 million on sales down 8%, to £3 billion. The division comprises Johnson Matthey's...

EFSA: EU neonicotinoid conclusions not affected by UK study on bumble bees
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA; Parma, Italy) has identified what it says are several weaknesses in a study published by the UK Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA); the study suggests that neonicotinoid pesticides do not have...

Eastman opens application facility
Eastman Chemical says it has opened a large-scale application facility at its European Technical Centre, at Liverpool, UKingdom. The center provides technical services, application development, and R&D for a number of business units. Limited laboratory...

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