Keyword: Latin America

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Syngenta Completes Plant Expansions

05.10.2016 - Swiss agrochemicals producer Syngenta has completed capacity expansions at key production sites in Brazil and Switzerland. Altogether, the company has invested $240 million in the...

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Latin American Chemical Distributor to be Acquired by Advent

01.12.2014 - Guatemala-based Grupo Transmerquim, (GTM), Latin America's second largest chemical distributor, has agreed to a takeover by private equity giant Advent International. The deal, for...

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Marco Antonio Quirino Named President of Univar Latin America

17.09.2014 - Marco Antonio Quirino has been named President of Univar Latin America, effective September 1. The announcement was made by David Flitman, Chief Operating Officer and President of...

Plant Construction & Process Technology

Latin America’s Growing Pharma Industry

06.08.2013 - Adaptation and Growth - For years, pharmaceutical companies have turned to emerging markets as low cost manufacturing destinations, utilizing lower wages and, frequently, less...

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Big Crop, Policy Revive Brazil's Sugar-ethanol Mills

12.02.2013 - Brazil's big sugarcane mills have begun to invest in ethanol production again, after licking their wounds from years of slim margins, as an expanding crop and favorable government...

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Buyers Eye Multibillion Deal for Brazilian Drugmaker

07.02.2013 - International drug companies are considering bidding for Ache Laboratorios Farmaceuticos, one of Brazil's biggest drugmakers, in a deal valuing it at several billion dollars...

Chemistry & Life Sciences

The Chemicals Economy at Halftime in 2012

25.09.2012 - Market Overview - With the euro crisis biting ever harder, the US economy still staggering under a formidable debt burden and even the Chinese growth engine sputtering, the chief...