10.01.2011
- U.S. Chemicals firm DuPont said on Sunday it will buy Danish food ingredients and enzymes firm Danisco for $5.8 billion, in a rare large deal that should boost its position in the...
05.01.2011
- Rising protectionism could kill off some multi-billion-dollar international takeovers this year, bankers say, noting that governments are increasingly keen to protect their...
08.12.2010
- Expansion in the European chemical industry will moderate in 2011 after double-digit year-on-year growth in 2010, industry group Cefic confirmed on Tuesday. The European chemical...
06.12.2010
- EU anti-trust regulators have carried out raids on some firms in the pharmaceutical sector on suspicions of collusion to delay the entry of generic drugs into the market, the...
30.11.2010
- BASF and Ineos Industries Holdings have announced their intention to combine their global business activities in styrene monomers (SM), polystyrene (PS), acrylonitrile butadiene...
29.10.2010
- Opinion - As December's deadline for Reach registration draws closer, the future looks brighter for an essential group of chemicals - high molecular weight phthalates (high...
29.10.2010
- Investors in the United Nations' Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) now have more confidence in the carbon offset market after 2012 after the number of post-2012 carbon credit deals...
20.10.2010
- BASF has announced first figures for the third quarter of 2010 and raised its outlook for the full year. Compared with the same quarter of the previous year, third-quarter sales...
20.10.2010
- The head of Germany's Merck KGaA, the world's largest supplier of liquid crystals for flat panel displays, warned that this year's massive upswing in key chemical markets could...
18.10.2010
- Clariant announced that it will be relocating the headquarters of its Textile Chemicals business unit to Singapore. The company said the move, which is due to be completed by mid...
