DuPont will acquire FMC’s health and nutrition business and divest part of its crop chemical business in what it says is “a meaningful step forward” for the proposed DuPont and Dow merger.
DSM has been confirmed as the leader in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for chemicals, after software problems through the rankings into doubt.
Cognis claims to have steered a steady course through last year’s economic upheaval. But despite a return to profitability, the downturn took its toll on nutrition and health and care ingredients sales.
DSM, the world's leading producer of vitamins, said yesterday that
operating profits in the first quarter would be significantly
better than previously forecast, at 40 per cent higher than in last
year's same period.
Dutch chemicals company DSM is cutting a further 500 jobs in
support services and manufacturing staff departments to improve
performance at its Geleen production site, it said today.
German chemicals group Degussa said today it has sold its remaining
49-per cent share in Sudsalz to SWS-Alpensalz, a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Südwestdeutsche Salzwerke (SWS), based in Heilbronn,
Germany. The divestment is part of...
German speciality chemicals company Degussa has founded a holding
company in Beijing - Degussa (China) Holding - to expand the
group's activities in the Chinese region. The group also announced
recently that it has completed...
Swiss intermediates and fine chemical company Lonza said today it
is to cut around 500 jobs mainly in Europe and the US as part of a
restructuring programme to reduce the negative effects of the
current economy on most of its business...
German company Degussa is to disband its Health & Nutrition
division next month, reorganising the Flavors & Fruit Systems,
BioActives and Texturant Systems activities into a new business
unit.
German chemicals group Bayer AG is edging towards a deal to buy the
agrochemicals arm of Franco-German drugs group Aventis SA for
around Euro 7.25 billion, including debt.
