UK-based biopharmaceuticals producer Mallinckrodt has agreed to sell is CDMO subsidiary BioVectra to HIG Capital, a private equity firm.

CPS Performance Materials, an Arsenal Capital Partners company that is active in performance polymers, fine chemicals and chemical illuminations, has acquired GEO Specialty Chemicals, which suppliers speciality chemicals and materials to the coatings, adhesives, medical, water treatment and const

ICL’s Industrial Products division (ICL-IP) is to increase its capacity for elemental bromine and bromine compounds after concluding several strategic agreements with customers in Asia.

Ascensus Specialties, which claims to be the largest global producer of dry and liquid sodium borohydride (SBH), has agreed to acquire Callery from private equity firm, Edgewater Capital to create what CEO Mike Huff called “a global reagents leader with number one market positions in high- growth

Germany’s Vink Chemicals has in short order acquired ISP Biochema Schwaben in Memmingen, Bavaria, and several ranges of technical biocides and oil and gas additives from Schülke & Mayr, another German firm. No financial terms were disclosed in either case.

Paige Marie Morse, industry director at AspenTech, looks at the specific digital challenges facing speciality chemicals companies