10.04.2017
- BASF has agreed to sell its Bleaching Clay and Mineral Adsorbents businesses to EP Minerals for an undisclosed sum. The deal’s closing is expected for the third quarter, following...
04.04.2017
- Germany’s Lanxess is expanding its global production of synthetic iron oxide pigments in order to keep up with increasing demand, particularly in the paints and coatings industry...
06.03.2017
- Major US chemicals distributor Nexeo Solutions has agreed with K.D. Feddersen – a German-based engineering thermoplastics distributor – to acquire inventory and service customers...
19.01.2017
- US chemical producer Huntsman has reconsidered and decided to exclude the textile effects business from the proposed spin-off of its titanium dioxide (TiO2) division. Last August...
18.10.2016
- US performance materials company Ferro has expanded its pigments business with two acquisitions at a cost of around $60 million. A definitive agreement has been made with Belgium’s...
01.08.2016
- As it prepares to separate from its TiO2 business by the first quarter of 2017, Huntsman said it is planning to include its textile-effects business to the spin-off package to make...
11.07.2016
- US-based Huntsman, the world’s largest producer of TiO2, has announced it will close its South African plant during the fourth quarter of 2016. Located in Umbogintwini, the 25,000...
23.06.2016
- Swiss specialty chemicals producer Clariant has boosted its pigments capabilities in the Americas with the start-up of a new plant in Mexico in the second quarter of 2016. Located...
