04.04.2011
- Cash-rich Belgian chemicals group Solvay is betting on emerging markets exposure and specialty chemicals with a €3.4 billion ($4.8 billion) cash bid for French group Rhodia. Monday...
01.04.2011
- More than half a million employees in the German chemical industry will get 4.1% more pay over a 15-month period in a collective wage bargaining deal that will add to inflationary...
31.03.2011
- Japanese engineers are struggling to gain control of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo, which was seriously damaged by a March 11...
09.03.2011
- Plastics company Styron is planning an initial public offering less than nine months since private equity firm Bain Capital bought it from Dow Chemical, two sources familiar with...
03.03.2011
- As fighting continues across Libya, the oil industry is trying to assess the output lost from Africa's third-largest producer. Most estimates suggest around half of the country's 1...
02.03.2011
- EU chemicals production pushed further upwards in December, increasing 3.9% compared with December 2009, according to the latest Cefic Chemicals Trends Report. As expected earlier...
03.02.2011
- A handful of strategic and financial bidders have expressed interest in the Carbon Black unit of Germany's unlisted chemical maker Evonik Industries, several people close to the...
26.01.2011
- Merck KGaA received instant approval from investors as it hired Matthias Zachert, the finance chief of German specialty chemicals group Lanxess, as its CFO. Shares in Merck gained...
21.01.2011
- One Equity Partners (OEP) has lined up at least four bidders for its majority stake in Germany's Süd-Chemie, putting other investors under pressure to sell, people briefed on the...
19.01.2011
- German companies have started to prop up their defenses to avoid becoming easy prey for possible suitors in the wake of Spanish builder ACS's pursuit of Hochtief, a top investment...
