This month's edition
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| Novolyte splits operations as Korean JV formed
Battery materials joined with Foosung salts | |
| NextPharma extends microbiology services
Three new labs at Göttingen site | |
| Nalco opens Indian site, acquires EOR firm
Pune centre forms part of five-strong network | |
| IMCD buys Warwick’s distribution companies
Expansion for world’s largest speciality chemicals distributor | |
| Cerbios opens HPAPI facility
Continued investment since 1999 | |
| What’s cooking?
European Patent Office upholds CEM patent | |
| Rhodia goes even greener
Collaboration with French and Chinese institutes | |
| Chemtura gears up for organometallic specialities
Investment in Germany, JV in Korea | |
| Aesica to add high containment
Facility adds to APIs, formulated products | |
| Cyprotex acquires Apredica, expands UK site
Combination also includes Cellumen technologies | |
| Johnson Matthey sells Vertec to Dorf Ketal
Another Western buy for rapidly growing Indian firm | |
| Dow Corning moves to secure silicon
Wacker example followed with stake in Timminco facility | |
| Dispersions investment in China for BASF
Plant complements regional network in boom market | |
| Evonik to add more TAA derivatives
Production to shift to larger Chinese facility | |
| Cherokee owner in shock exit, sells site back to Merck
Riverside returned after failure to expand customer base | |
| AMRI to expand in Singapore
Move prompted by continuing shift East | |
| OECD adopts EpiDerm test
Animal welfare groups applaud Draize test replacement | |
| Innospec managers settle civil charges
Fines for two over bribes to officials | |
| DSM tries to sell Special Products
Second attempt after EC blocks 2008 exit | |
| Charles River cancels WuXi PharmaTech acquisition
Shareholder pressure ends deal | |
| Huntsmans buys Laffans chemicals
Further expansion in amines and surfactants after Singapore | |
| Kemira buys Teesport from Albemarle
Facility adds products to Oil & Mining division | |
| Chemtura makes another sale
Sonneborn buys natural sodium sulphonates, oxidised petrolatum | |
| BASF splits Care Chemicals
New Nutrition & Health division established | |
| TSCA reform process begins in US
Act introduced into House of Representatives | |
| Johnson Matthey scavenges from Reaxa
QuadraPure, QuadraSil join Smopex in new business | |
| Chromatography combination
InstrAction joins Novasep in small molecule purification | |
| Rhodia invests at ex-McIntyre sites
Consolidation in UK, upgrade in US | |
| Süd-Chemie plans cellulose ethanol plant
€28 million facility due onstream in 2011 | |
| Merck KGaA completes Millipore buy
Two new divisions created within Merck Chemicals | |
| Ashland, Süd-Chemie expand foundry JV
ASK Chemicals participating in rebounding market | |
| SOCMA criticises Senate security bill
Secure Chemical Facilities Act called ‘misguided’ | |
| It’s the sun
SAFC Hitech to work on solar applications | |
| Evonik takes Tessenderlo’s glycine customer list
Expansion in China to make up volumes | |
| Aptuit buys GSK research facility
Continuing supply agreement keeps 500 staff employed | |
| Borregaard closes Ravenna plant
Several years of losses force decision | |
| Aesica buys R5
R&D company is third UK acquisition | |
| Kemira starts membrane R&D
Singapore university joins two-year project | |
| BASF ends Astra antioxidants venture
New options to be pursued for Middle East | |
| BASF acquires Cognis for €3.1 billion
Further move to specialities as Lubrizol beaten off | |
| Bio-succinic acid JV formalised
DSM and Roquette announce breakthrough | |
| Lanxess optimises yellow iron oxide pigments
Process improvements at multiple sites as demand grows | |
| AkzoNobel further sharpens focus
National Starch goes in $1.3 billion deal | |
| White out
Kemira exits fluorescent whitening agents | |
| Rhodia in Chinese surfactant maker buy
Plans to double size as firm goes Asian | |
| Chemtura files Plan of Reorganisation
Chapter 11 bankruptcy exit a step closer | |
| AMRI acquires Hyaluron
Expansion adds sterile filling | |
| BASF in CO2 capture venture
Intermediates division joins RTI in DoE-sponsored work | |
| ISP to work with Vivimed
UV absorbers for personal care the focus | |
| Albemarle expands on two European fronts
Services Centre in Hungary, kilo lab in Belgium | |
| VanDeMark opens European office
Hughes named head of sales and business development | |
| Evonik powers up on powder catalysts
New facility in China follows recycling deal in India | |
| Swan upping CNT capacity
Second facility to follow one opened in May | |
| Here comes the sun
Solar investments for three major firms | |