Fine and speciality chemicals – Page 15

Business
Solvay expands surfactants business with Chemlogics buyout

2013-10-09T00:00:00Z

$1.3bn deal brings firm into booming US oil and gas drilling market
Business
Clariant expands into China

2013-09-30T00:00:00Z

Firm buys pigments arm of Jiangsu Multicolor and will build new plant
Business
Service with a smile

2013-09-18T00:00:00Z

Company profile: Charnwood Molecular is more than a run-of-the-mill contract synthesis provider
Business
AkzoNobel sells building adhesives unit for €260m

2013-08-12T00:00:00Z

Sika will take on two manufacturing sites and 550 employees
Business
Palm kernel oil to polyamide

2013-08-02T00:00:00Z

Evonik boosts European bio-based polymer output
Business
Gas specialist branches out into carbon nanotubes

2013-07-26T00:00:00Z

Linde group launches ink made with long, individual tubes
Feature
Phasing out fire retardants

2013-07-25T00:00:00Z

With many brominated flame retardants facing bans, Nuala Moran examines the industry’s dash for new ones
Business
PolyOne to close six sites and shed 250 jobs

2013-07-23T00:00:00Z

Former Spartech manufacturing facilities are ‘redundant’ after takeover in March
Business
Carbon nanotubes not commercially viable for Bayer

2013-05-09T00:00:00Z

Company terminates Baytubes project and seeks to divest its know-how in the area
Business
Appeal reverses ECHA call for animal tests

2013-04-29T00:00:00Z

Automotive refrigerant will not need further toxicity studies under the Reach regulation
Business
Veolia and Total open oil recycling plant

2013-04-12T00:00:00Z

Osilub plant will re-refine used oils into high grade engine lubricants
Business
Dispute over Arkema finances

2013-03-13T00:00:00Z

French speciality chemical company Arkema accused of misrepresenting business sold to investment firm last year
Business
Dow Corning to reduce roster by 500

2013-01-10T00:00:00Z

Company says it must respond to oversupplied markets, high raw materials costs and poor growth in many regions
Business
Clariant sells business bundle for CHF500m

2013-01-03T00:00:00Z

Textile, paper and emulsion businesses to go to US investment firm
Business
AkzoNobel sells $1bn chunk of paints business

2012-12-20T00:00:00Z

North American decorative paints business was responsible for 7% of total AkzoNobel sales in 2011, amounting to $1.5 billion
Business
Solvay launches €300,000 chemistry prize

2012-11-26T00:00:00Z

To recognise science that could ‘shape tomorrow’s chemistry and help human progress’
Business
What lies within

2012-11-16T00:00:00Z

Bayer boss Marijn Dekkers aims to increase impact of good R&D across different internal units
Business
More jobs go: Lonza cuts 500

2012-10-31T00:00:00Z

A bid to ‘secure the future’ of the site at Visp in Switzerland
Business
€2.5bn written off AkzoNobel paint business

2012-10-19T00:00:00Z

Company records loss on back of impairment
Business
$2.2bn speciality chemicals acquisition

2012-10-18T00:00:00Z

Family-owned US speciality chemical company Champion Technologies is to be bought by Ecolab