Chemicals

Georgia Gulf to buy PPG Industries' commodity chemicals business for $2.1 bn

19 Jul 2012

Production restarts at Grasim’s Nagda plant

10 Jul 2012

Germany’s industrial gases supplier Linde AG to acquire Lincare for $4.6 bn

02 Jul 2012

US court says Union Carbide not liable in Bhopal tragedy

28 Jun 2012

US specialty chemicals firm Cabot Corp to buy Norit NV for $1.1 billion

22 Jun 2012

Air Products to acquire 67 % in Chile’s Indura SA for $884 mn

20 Jun 2012

Evonik owner RAG drops IPO plans amid weak support

19 Jun 2012

Samsonite recalls Tokyo Chic suitcase in Hong Kong over carcinogens in handles

18 Jun 2012

Union Carbide’s toxic waste in Bhopal to be disposed in Germany

08 Jun 2012

Yara joint venture with Orica and Apache to set up TAN plant in Burrup peninsula

21 May 2012

Haldia Petrochem tussle: HC refuses to stay arbitration

05 May 2012

The Calcutta High Court has refused to grant the West Bengal government’s plea for an injunction on international arbitration initiated by the Chatterjee Group on the issue of majority ownership of Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd

KCI to acquire Switzerland based APAG Group

23 Apr 2012

BASF setting up Rs1,000-crore facility at Dahej

11 Apr 2012

Sony Corp to sell chemical product unit to Development Bank of Japan

22 Mar 2012

Morgan Stanley Asia fund invests $300 mn in China's Tianhe Chemicals

21 Mar 2012

Dow used Stratfor to spy on Bhopal activists: WikiLeaks

27 Feb 2012

DuPont, Yingli Green Energy in $100 million solar energy pact

14 Feb 2012

Eastman Chemical to acquire Solutia Inc for $3.38 bn

27 Jan 2012

Only 42 Bhopal gas victims severely hit, insists government

13 Jan 2012

Aditya Birla Group to invest $500 million in Turkey VSF project

30 Dec 2011

The group, which has a 21 per cent share of the global market for viscose staple fibre, is ramping up capacity for an even larger share

Mexichem raises takeover offer for Dutch rival Wavin to €505 million

26 Dec 2011

H B Fuller to buy Forbo's industrial adhesives business for $395 mn

22 Dec 2011

Apollo Global acquires Belgian chemicals firm Taminco for €1.4 bn

17 Dec 2011

Government extends sops for engineering, pharma and chemical exports

16 Dec 2011

Apex court allows export of unused stock of endosulfan

15 Dec 2011