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Chemical Week Magazine :: Business & Finance :: Europe/Mideast

May 19, 2008

Akzo Buys Specialties Units; Profits Fall on Weak U.S. Coatings Market

Kerri Walsh

AkzoNobel says it has signed separate agreements to acquire a silica sol business in Germany and organic peroxide plants in China. Financial terms of the deals were not disclosed. Akzo, meanwhile, reported a decline in first-quarter earnings. Akzo says that...

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