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Tosoh to supply Chemtura's brominated flame retardant products in Japan

As per the deal, Tosoh will have the exclusive right to sell Chemtura's Emerald Innovation 1000 flame retardant products to Japanese customers

Borealis and Agrifos to set up ammonia plant in Texas

The brownfield, hydrogen-based project is scheduled for mechanical completion and start-up in early 2019

Chembond divests stake in JV with Henkel

Divestment was part of Chembond's strategy to invest in other businesses such as water treatment, construction chemicals, industrial coatings, animal nutrition and enzymes

Govt approves Rs 4500-cr ammonia-urea complex in Assam

The Cabinet also gave its nod for the revival of closed urea unit of Fertilizer Corporation India Limited (FCIL) at Sindri (Jharkhand) with an investment of Rs 6,000 crore

Dutch firm Odournet smells big opportunity in odour management in India

With CPCB planning to implement odour emission norms, the company sees increase in demand for odour evaluation & management in the country

Manali Petrochemicals to invest Rs 100 cr for polyols capacity expansion

The company plan to expand the capacity from the current 50000 tonnes per annum (tpa) to 1,50,000 tpa over the next five years

DCW Ltd starts commercial production of iron oxide pigments in TN

Iron oxides pigments are widely used in paints, coatings and coloured concretes

DCC Energy offers to buy Shell's Butagaz LPG business in France

Shell has received a binding offer of Euro 464 million ($529 million) from DCC Energy for this deal

Smart cities to drive construction chemicals market to reach Rs 7000 cr

However, FTAs and inverted duty structure having a negative impact on the industry, which is still witnessing two-thirds of construction chemicals being imported into the country

Camlin Fine Sciences to set up hydroquinone and vanillin units in Dahej

The company will spend Rs 185 to set up a facility, which will house these units, in Dahej SEZ

Strides Arcolab acquires Aspen's generics biz in Australia for A$ 380 mn

The company will acquire a generic pharmaceutical business in Australia together with certain branded pharmaceutical assets from South African firm Aspen Pharmacare Holdings

Evonik expands methacrylic anhydride capacity in Germany

The company has doubled its production capacity for Visiomer MAAH - an important building block in the production of specialty methacrylates - at its site in Worms (Germany)

Global halogen-free flame retardant PP market to reach $ 664 mn by 2020

Increasing construction spending coupled with positive outlook on automotive industry particularly in China, India, etc is expected to drive the market, as per Grand View Research report

DSM and Ascend form alliance for supply of polyamide 66 compounds

As per the pact, Ascend becomes the strategic supplier to DSM for PA66 base-polymer, while DSM will distribute Ascend's portfolio of PA66 compounds

AstraZeneca to set up $285-mn biologics facility in Sweden

The new facility, which will focus on filling and packaging of protein therapeutics, will supply medicines for clinical trial programmes of AstraZeneca and MedImmune

Endo to acquire Par Pharma for $8 bn

The combination will create a specialty pharmaceutical company with one of industry's fastest growing generics businesses

Bio Innovation Centre opened at Tiruvananthapuram

Under 'Make in India', biotechnology to grow to $ 100 billion by 2025, says Dr Harsh Vardhan

Strong IPR regime can only entice companies to invest in India: Swiss minister

Johann Schneider Ammann, Swiss economic affairs minister, urges Indian government to remove the difficulties faced by pharma companies in testing and marketing facilities

Chemical industry's perspective on 'Make in India': Sudhir Shenoy

India offers huge market for chemical companies. But, to achieve the goals of 'Make in India' initiative, the government has to create favourable conditions for global and local firms to invest in man

Deepak Nitrite forms subsidiary for phenol project in Gujarat

The company is setting up the project, with a capital outlay of around Rs 1,200 crores, for manufacturing 200,000 MTPA of phenol and 120,000 MTPA of acetone (a co-product)