Keyword: Performance Chemicals

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PQ Sells Performance Chemicals to Cerberus/Koch Partnership

05.03.2021 -

PQ Group has agreed to sell its Performance Chemicals business for $1.1 billion to a partnership established by Cerberus Capital Management and Koch Minerals & Trading...

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BASF Sells Leather Chemicals Unit to Stahl

24.03.2017 - After previous unsuccessful efforts to divest its leather business, BASF has found a buyer in the Netherlands-based Stahl Group. To facilitate a deal, the German chemical giant has...

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Vertellus Gets Court Approval for Sale to Lenders

21.09.2016 - The US Bankruptcy Court has approved the sale of Vertellus Specialties’ assets to the company’s term loan lenders. The US fine and specialty chemicals manufacturer filed for...

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Lanxess Bolsters Pension Fund on Rubber Deal

12.05.2016 - German specialty chemicals producer Lanxess has announced it will invest €200 million of the €1.2 billion proceeds from Saudi Aramco’s takeover of part of its synthetic rubber...

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Kolb Takes on the KLK OLEO Identity

05.04.2016 - In 2007, Hedingen, Switzerland-based performance chemicals manufacturer/distributor Kolb became a subsidiary of Kuala Lumpur Kepong Berhad (KLK), a company incorporated in Malaysia...

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BASF to Reorganize Businesses, Cut Jobs

11.11.2015 - As part of a reorganization to promote competitiveness of its Performance Chemicals division, BASF will combine its Water Solutions and Paper Chemicals units into a new global...

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SABIC Realigns Business Unit Structure

09.10.2015 - Following a strategic review, Saudi Arabian petrochemicals group SABIC has announced a new corporate organization that it said is designed to address changes in the market...

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First C8 Exposure Case Opens Against DuPont

15.09.2015 - A US court has begun hearing the first of several cases in what began as a class action suit against DuPont, in which plaintiffs claim the US chemical giant was to blame for their...