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22 January 2020
Azelis finalises acquisition of Megafarma in Mexico
Specialty chemicals distributor Azelis Americas has completed its previously announced acquisition of Megafarma, a Mexican specialty distributor for pharma, food and veterinary industries.
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20 January 2020
Showa Denko to streamline UP and VE production in Japan
Chemicals company Showa Denko has decided to streamline the domestic production of unsaturated polyester resin (UP) and vinyl ester resin (VE) in Japan.
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17 January 2020
Italmatch Chemicals acquires ICL’s RecoPhos project technology
Italmatch Chemicals has acquired the RecoPhos project technology from Israel Chemicals (ICL), a developer of special purpose chemical products.
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13 January 2020
Lanxess completes sale of chrome chemical business
Germany-based speciality chemical company Lanxess has completed the sale of its chrome chemicals business to Chinese leather chemicals producer Brother Enterprises for €80m ($89m).
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10 January 2020
USW files lawsuit against EPA to save chemical disaster regulation
Trade union United Steelworks (USW) has sued the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in a bid to save a chemical disaster regulation.
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8 January 2020
Pembina signs EPC contract with CKPC for petrochemical facility
Pembina Pipeline has signed a lump sum engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with Canadian Kuwait Petrochemical (CKPC) for a petrochemical facility in Canada.
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6 January 2020
Huntsman sells chemical intermediates and surfactant business for $2bn
US-based chemical manufacturing company Huntsman has closed the sale of its chemical intermediates and surfactant businesses to Thailand-based Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL) for approximately $2.076bn.
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23 December 2019
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20 December 2019
Clariant to sell Masterbatches business to PolyOne for $1.6bn
Swiss specialty chemicals company Clariant has signed an agreement to sell its complete colour and additives Masterbatches business to PolyOne for $1.6bn.
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18 December 2019
Sasol resolves issues at Lake Charles project’s ethane cracker unit
Integrated energy and chemicals company Sasol has resolved the issues with the acetylene removal system of the ethane cracker at the Lake Charles chemicals project (LCCP) in Louisiana, US.