10.06.2011
- AkzoNobel has announced that CEO Hans Wijers will be stepping down with effect from the company's annual general meeting (AGM) in 2012. Sulzer President and CEO Ton Büchner is...
08.06.2011
- Michael Heinz talks to Brandi Schuster about the importance of BASF's integration of Cognis, a German maker of additives for cosmetics and detergents, for the company's surfactant...
17.05.2011
- DuPont has won its $6.4 billion battle for Danisco, with 92.2% of the Danish food ingredients maker's shares tendered in support of a deal. Nearly half of DuPont's revenue now will...
12.05.2011
- European chemical companies have warned the watchdog that oversees them that it could face legal action if it publishes the names of manufacturers of the most toxic substances in a...
11.05.2011
- Belgian chemicals group Solvay said the French financial markets authority has approved their friendly public offer for Rhodia. Once the authorizations of the Autorité de Contrôle...
10.05.2011
- Two environmental groups said on Monday they had sued Europe's chemicals watchdog for withholding information about the production of toxic chemicals. The lawsuit, filed by...
05.05.2011
- Reliance Industries plans to invest up to $12 billion in the chemicals business to tap the market for hygiene and healthcare products and will look at developing a new rubber...
04.05.2011
- Following a string of takeovers in Europe and the United States, BASF continues having a hard time finding suitable targets in Asia, the German company's biggest growth market. "We...
02.05.2011
- DuPont raised its offer for Danisco by 5% to $6.64 billion on Friday, bowing to pressure from dissident Danisco shareholders who had complained the initial offer was too low...
11.04.2011
- Israel's MA Industries will acquire DuPont Crop Protection's global non-mixture diuron business, the world's biggest maker of generic agrochemicals said on Sunday. Financial terms...
