14.05.2012
Undeveloped Market - ICIS, a provider of marketing intelligence on the global chemical industry, published a report in July on the top global chemical distributors. Led by Brenntag with $10.1 billion in sales (2010), at the end of the list, there was a Canadian distributor named Interatlas Chemical with sales of $10 million.
And not a single one of these 160 companies is headquartered in China.
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Chinese Overview - Throughout the year 2011, we covered several aspects of the chemical industry in China, ranging from R&D cooperation to strategy development and the tendency of mu
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China's Sinochem plans to raise up to 35 billion yuan ($5.5 billion) via an initial public offering in Shanghai, in what would easily be the biggest IPO in the mainland market in the past year.
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Belarusian Potash Company, the joint venture trader of Russia's Uralkali , has agreed to a second half potash deliveries contract with major Chinese fertilizer importers at prices $70 a ton higher than in the first half.
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China issued its first shale gas exploration tender with an offer of four blocks to a group of Chinese energy companies, state media reported, as the country kicks off its search for potentially vast reserves of the unconventional resource.
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Chinese state-owned oil and chemicals company Sinochem received EU regulatory approval on Thursday for its purchase of a 50% stake in Dutch chemicals firm DSM's anti-infectives business. Located in Hong Kong, the joint venture will reinforce Sinochem's presence in the biochemical industry.
The European Commission, the EU antitrust watchdog, said it had examined whether the Chinese authorities coordinate the market behavior of different state-owned firms, among other concerns.
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Strategy Development in the Chemical Industry in China - From a Western perspective, business strategies should be based on two perspectives: an external and an internal one. Differences - From a Western perspective, business strategies should be based on two perspectives: an external and an internal one. The external perspective covers all aspects of the outside world, while the internal perspective focuses on the specifics of the company developing the strategy.
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Russian potash producer Uralkali said on Thursday its Belarusian Potash Co (BPC) export joint venture will supply 600,000 tons of output to two major Chinese buyers at $400 per ton.
Analysts at Troika Dialog said this was a 14% year-on-year increase.
BPC, the joint venture trader for Uralkali and Belaruskali, controls more than 30% of global exports, and the price hike shows that improved demand is once again allowing it to flex its muscles on the international market.
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Potash Corp. has pledged to move key staff from Chicago to Saskatchewan province as it tries to win political favor by matching BHP Billiton's promise to beef up its Canadian headquarters if it wins control of the fertilizer maker.
Saskatoon-based Potash Corp. outlined a series of commitments to the province in a bid to sway political opinion against BHP, which has also promised to move key jobs back to Canada if its $39 billion takeover bid is successful.
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China's Sinochem has hired banks to advise the company on how to foil BHP Billiton's $39 billion bid for Potash, sources said, in a sign that Chinese officials are moving ahead with plans to block the deal despite heavy obstacles.
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