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The board of bankrupt LyondellBasell Industries AF rejected a $14.5 billion bid from Reliance Industries Ltd., an oil refiner and explorer controlled by India s richest man, two people briefed on the matter said. The offer pitted billionaire Mukesh Ambani s Reliance against ...
Hungarian isocyanate producer Borsodchem restarted its 90kt/y TDI facility at the northern Hungarian town of Kazincbarcika but kept low operation, a company source said recently. The facility was shutdown for maintenance on July 12 due to technical failure. The company said ...
BATON ROUGE, La., Aug. 16, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB), a leader in the development, manufacture and marketing of curatives, announced today that it will increase prices of ETHACURE(R) 100 curatives by 10% on Europe and Americas shipments ...
Yara International ASA, the world s largest fertilizer producer, agreed to buy Terra Industries Inc. for $4.1 billion to take advantage of lower U.S. energy costs. Yara will pay $41.10 in cash for each Terra share and sell as much as $2.5 billion of stock in a rights offer to ...
Merck KGaA has agreed to buy Millipore Corp., maker of biomedical research products, for approximately $7.2 billion including assumed debt, in a move designed to further build out the German conglomerate's chemicals business.
Dow Chemical Co. agreed to sell its Styron unit, the world s biggest producer of polystyrene plastic, to Bain Capital Partners for about $1.63 billion to pay down debt and focus on higher-value materials. Dow may take a 15 percent equity stake in Styron as part of the sale ...
Chemtura Corporation, debtor-in-possession (Pink Sheets: CEMJQ) (the "Company" or "Chemtura"), completed the sale of its PVC Additives business to Galata Chemicals ("Galata") on April 30, 2010 for cash consideration of $16.2 million and the assumption by Galata of certain ...
Listed fuel firm PKN Orlen and chemicals firm Pulawy terminated talks on the sale of PKN's chemical unit Anwil to Pulawy, citing maintained differences in both price- and non-price terms of the deal, PKN Orlen said in a market filing. "According to accepted strategy, PKN ORLEN ...
Ashland Inc. (NYSE: ASH) today announced that its subsidiary, Hercules Incorporated, closed the sale of its refined wood rosin and natural wood terpenes business, formerly known as Pinova, to a new company formed by TorQuest Partners, a leading Canadian private equity fund ...
BRASKEM S.A. (BOVESPA: BRKM3, BRKM5 and BRKM6; NYSE: BAK; LATIBEX: XBRK), the leading resin producer in the Americas announced that it has signed an agreement with Sunoco, Inc. ("Sunoco"), an U.S.-based oil company, for the acquisition by Braskem of the polypropylene (PP) ...
Britain's Ineos, the world's third-largest chemicals group, sold its fluorinated chemicals unit to Mexican conglomerate Mexichem (MEXCHEM.MX) as it seeks ways to ease its debt burden.A source close to the situation told Reuters Ineos Fluor, which has turnover of 300 million euros ...
Phillipsburg specialty chemicals business Mallinckrodt Baker Inc. has been sold to a private equity firm with plans to expand the business. Corporate parent Covidien Inc. announced the $280 million sale today to New York-based New Mountain Capital LLC. The deal was greeted with ...
MUMBAI -(Dow Jones)- India's United Phosphorus Ltd. (512070.BY) said Thursday it has bought U.S. chemical giant DuPont Co.'s (DD) mancozeb fungicide business and related assets. The acquisition includes existing inventory as well as manufacturing and formulation production ...
Nufarm has confirmed that Japanese company Sumitomo Chemical has acquired 20% stake in the company. Early last month, Nufarm shareholders approved the acquisition of up to 20% of the company at $A14 a share. Sumitomo s strongest business focus was in insecticides and fungicides ...
BASF (BASF.DE), the world's largest chemical maker by sales, is in advanced talks to take over German additives supplier Cognis, three sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Friday. A bid could emerge by next week, one of the sources said. Cognis's owners Permira ...
Cambrex Corporation (NYSE: CBM) announced it has acquired IEP GmbH ("IEP"), a privately held company that is a leader in the field of industrial biocatalysis. IEP is located in Wiesbaden, Germany and offers cost effective customized biocatalytic process development and sales of ...
Brazilian mining giant Vale (VALE5.SA)(VALE.N) said on Wednesday that it has reached an agreement to sell minority stakes in its Bayovar phosphate mine project in Peru for $660 million, through a newly formed company that will control and operate the project. Vale will sell 35 ...
Evonik Industries has acquired the business of Methacrylate Specialty Esters from Arkema.The acquisition concerns the products 2-Ethylhexyl Methacrylate (2-EHMA), Dimethylaminoethyl Methacrylate (MADAME), and n- and i-Butyl Methacrylate (n-BUMA and i-BUMA).These monomers are ...
Eastman Chemical Company (NYSE:EMN) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Genovique Specialties Corporation, a leading global producer of specialty plasticizers, benzoic acid, and sodium benzoate. The acquisition will establish Eastman as a ...
Generic pharmaceuticals giant Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Nasdaq: TEVA; TASE: TEVA)will buy German generic pharmaceuticals company Ratiopharm. Teva's winning offer was about ?.625 billion, or $4.9 billion. The bidding for Ratiopharm ended today. Ratiopharm has annual ...
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