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TiO2 makers head for court over unpaid fee

20 May 2019 - 0

Venator Materials has started a lawsuit against Tronox, claiming that Tronox has refused to honour a contract to pay a $75 million ‘break fee’ for the termination of the proposed sale of Cristal’s North American titanium dioxide (TiO2) business.

Dow spin-off complete

9 April 2019 - 0

DowDuPont has completed the spin-off of its Materials Science division as Dow.

Harke Group buys two UK firms

27 March 2019 - 0

The Harke Group, a chemical distributor based at Mülheim-an-der Ruhr in Germany, has acquired Chemlink Specialities and Addi-Tec, which are both part of the Chemlink Group from Manchester, UK.

AGC acquires in two fields

4 March 2019 - 0

Japan’s AGC has completed the acquisition of Malgrat Pharma Chemicals (MPC), a maker of synthetic APIs based in Spain, from Boheringer Ingelheim.

War of words begins over Versum offer

4 March 2019 - 0

Electronic chemicals producer Versum Materials, which is in the process of an agreed merger with Entegris, has rejected an unsolicited and non-binding proposal by Merck KGaA, to acquire it in a $48/share deal.

Bankrupt Aceto plans chemical disposal

4 March 2019 - 0

Aceto, a US-headquartered distributor active in the pharmaceuticals, chemicals and related sectors, has entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy and announced plans to sell the chemicals related part of its business.

First bio-PET bottles made

4 March 2019 - 0

Sustainable technology company Anellotech has announced that it, IFPEN and Axens have processed aromatics from loblolly pine wood feedstock at its TCat-8 pilot plant at Silsbee, Texas, and recovered high-purity bio-based paraxylene (PX), using its Bio-TCat process.