Fertilisers
US fertilizer giant CF Industries to buy European rival OCI’s assets for $8 bn
07 Aug 2015
CF Industries Holdings Inc is acquiring Dutch rival OCI NV’s European and North American plants and global distribution for approximately $8 billion, in a bid to create the world’s biggest publicly-traded nitrogen producer
UB Group to buy shares from Zuari to equal stake in MCFL
01 Jun 2015
The move comes after the Zuari Group helped UB Group to successfully stave off a takeover bid by rival Deepak Fertilisers
Modi intervenes to restart ailing FACT in 15 days
22 Dec 2014
A meeting of chemicals and fertilizers minister Ananth Kumar and petroleum and natural gas minister Dharmendra Pradhan with MPs from Kerala has set the stage for restarting production at the plant in about 15 days.
Mangalore Chemicals shares spurt as Vijay Mallya resigns from board
01 Dec 2014
Vijay Mallya has stepped down from the board of Mangalore Chemicals & Fertilizers as he lost control of his last bastion after losing control of Kingfisher Airlines and United Spirits
Fertilizer giants CF Industries and Yara end merger talks
17 Oct 2014
CF and Yara had late last month said that they were in talks towards a “merger of equals,” and a successful deal would have created a company with an enterprise value of around $30 billion and revenues of around $18.4 billion
SAIL may exit Rs35,000-cr Sindri revival project
23 Jun 2014
Deepak Fertilisers moves HC against stoppage of gas supply
16 May 2014
The shortage of domestic gas has forced urea manufacturing units to rely on exorbitantly high-priced imported LNG, the cost of which the government has to bear in the form of subsidy
Deepak Fertilisers to make open offer for 26% stake of Mangalore Chemicals
23 Apr 2014
The acquisition will raise Deepak Fertilisers' stake in Mangalore Chemicals to 26.1 per cent, obliging it launch an open offer for buying at least 26 per cent from the public
IFFCO arm to set up $1.6-bn urea plant in Canada’s Quebec province
19 Apr 2014
IFFCO said, La Coop Federee, an agri-food organisation in Quebec and one of the shareholders of the Quebec project, has agreed to purchase some 5,00,000 tonnes of urea a year
Reliance defies EC, tells fertiliser firms to pay double for gas
10 Apr 2014
The fertiliser industry is not prepared to meet RIL’s new terms, and says it will only follow government-mandated pricing
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