Chemicals
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23 Feb 2011
Clariant’s Masterbatches Business increases prices
Muttenz, 23 February 2011 – The Masterbatches Business Unit of Clariant, a leading masterbatches player globally, announces global price increases for most of its products.
21 Feb 2011
Azelis to acquire S&D Group Ltd, UK
Azelis, the leading pan-European specialty chemicals distributor, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire S&D Group Limited, a leading specialist supplier of raw materials and ingredients to the pharmaceutical, food, personal care and performance chemicals industries.
DSM Engineering Plastics, one of the world's leading suppliers of engineering thermoplastics, has introduced a number of innovative Eco packaging solutions that anticipate and proactively address market demands. These include a new solution for reducing lactam pollution in BOPA film production and in co-extrusion of PA6 outer layer(s), and a breathable, cost-effective film to replace highly polluting cellulose in smoked meat applications.
Due to unprecedented and continued escalations in key raw materials costs (such as adipic, glass fiber, flame retardants and others), DSM Engineering Plastics is forced to increase prices for its Stanyl® product range on top of 2010 price increases.
Royal DSM N.V., the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company headquartered in the Netherlands, announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire the majority shareholding in Shandong ICD High Performance Fibre Co Ltd. (“ICD”), based in Laiwu, Shandong province, China. Closing of this transaction is expected in the course of 2011.