Keyword: AkzoNobel

Plant Construction & Process Technology

Completion of Neolyse's Membrane Electrolysis Plant in Germany

02.03.2018 - Chemieanlagenbau Chemnitz (CAC) has successfully built its first chlor-alkali electrolysis plant in Germany. Until now, clients and jobsites of the Saxon plant manufacturer have...

News

Consortium Plans Dutch Waste-to-Methanol Plant

21.02.2018 - A consortium that comprises AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals, industrial gases group Air Liquide, Canadian cleantech company Enerkem and the Port of Rotterdam has signed an agreement...

News

Dutch Fund Joins Apollo in Akzo Specialties bid

13.02.2018 - Interest in acquiring the Specialty Chemicals business Dutch coatings manufacturer AkzoNobel has put up for sale is shaping up to be more substantial than the company may have...

News

AkzoNobel in Talks to Sell Specialty Chemicals

15.01.2018 - AkzoNobel is negotiating with three or four potential buyers of its Specialty Chemicals division, according to media reports. Last month, shareholders approved the proposed...

Markets & Companies

2017 Through the Rear-view Mirror

09.01.2018 - China continued to draw in investors. ExxonMobil Chemical signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement and an MoU with authorities in Huizhou to jointly evaluate plans for a...

Markets & Companies

2017 Through the Rear-view Mirror

08.01.2018 - The year just ended was marked by a flood of M&A activity also in the distribution sector. Leading the way, German giant Brenntag said it planned to acquire all shares of specialty...

Markets & Companies

2017 Through the Rear-view Mirror

08.01.2018 - On the pharmaceutical side, super-dimensioned M&A activity was somewhat more modest. Many of the deals were between players in the biochemicals segment or conventional drugmakers...

Markets & Companies

2017 Through the Rear-view Mirror

08.01.2018 - The chemical production sector saw more activity than pharmaceuticals in 2017. Beyond the mega-mergers, one of the most significant deals of 2017 was BASF’s announcement in early...