POLAND Makhteshim Makes Two Acquisitions
Makhteshim Agan Industries (MAI; Tel Aviv) says it has agreed to acquire 90% of agchem producer Rokita Agro (Brzeg Dolny, Poland) from PCC... PKN Plans Petchem Divestments
PKN Orlen (Plock, Poland) says that petrochemical... Air Products Invests in Russia and Poland
Air Products says it will install two high-purity nitrogen generators at Alcoa’s aluminum plant at Samara, Russia. The generators are due onstream in 2009. The... Polish Companies Form Consortium
Chemical company Ciech (Warsaw) has signed a previously announced deal to form a consortium with fertilizer... Air Products Invests in Russia, Poland
Air Products says it will install two high-purity nitrogen generators at Alcoa's aluminum plant in Samara, Russia, due onstream in 2009. Air Products also plans to... More Stories » HUNGARY Linde Builds Gases Plants in Hungary and Switzerland
Linde says it will invest about €26 million ($34 million) to build an air separation unit at BorsodChem’s (Kazincbarcika, Hungary) site at Kazincbarcika. The investment follows the signing of a long-term, onsite... Linde to Build ASU in Hungary
Linde says it will build a new air separation unit (ASU) at Hungarian chemical company BorsodChem’s (Kazincbarcika) site at Kazincbarcika, in north eastern Hungary, with an investment of about €26 million ($34 million). The ASU is part of the... OMV Gives Up on Acquiring MOL
OMV (Vienna) has abandoned its attempt to acquire MOL (Budapest). OMV launched a hostile $20-billion bid last year for MOL, which encountered fierce resistance from the MOL board (CW, Oct. 3, 2007, p. 7). A... Sanofi-Aventis Signs Deal with ThalesNano
ThalesNano Inc. (Budapest), a developer of micro-scale flow instruments for chemistry, says it has signed an R&D agreement with Sanofi-Aventis (Paris) that will focus on continuous process chemistry technologies to reduce drug realization time. The... MOL Continues to Resist Approaches from OMV
MOL (Budapest) says its board has rejected certain proposals made by OMV (Vienna) for MOL’s annual meeting, which is due to take place on April 23. OMV is MOL’s biggest shareholder with a stake of 20.2% and last year launched a takeover bid for... More Stories » CZECH REPUBLIC Czech Parliament Overrules Reach Veto
The Czech parliament has voted by a large majority to adopt legislation implementing the European Union’s Registration... Czech President Vetoes Reach
Klaus: No need for tougher rules. Czech President Václav Klaus has vetoed the European Union’s (EU) Registration, Evaluation, and Authorisation of Chemicals (Reach) legislation. “There is no reason to further toughen legislation in this... UniPetrol Plans Cracker Repairs
UniPetrol (Litvinov, Czech Republic) says it will shut down its Litvinov ethylene cracker for approximately 21 days in... Unipetrol Cracker to Close for Repairs in October
Unipetrol (Prague), a subsidiary of PKN Orlen (Warsaw) says it is planning a 21-day shut down at its Litvinov, Czech Republic olefins complex at the beginning of October for turbine repairs. The diffusers within the turbine, which drives the... Unipetrol Builds Two Plants at Czech Site
Unipetrol (Prague) says it plans to build two plants at its Litvínov, Czech Republic petrochemical complex that will improve utilization rates at the site’s ethylene plant. Unipetrol plans to build a 20,000... More Stories » RUSSIA Sibur Exits Methanol Business
Sibur (Moscow) says it will quit the methanol business. The company is negotiating to sell its stake in methanol firm... R&H Starts up Polymer Emulsions Plant in Russia
Rohm and Haas (R&H) says it has started up the first phase of production at its previously announced new manufacturing facility located at the Ramenskoye region of Moscow, Russia; and the plant will be focused on manufacturing additives for paint and... Vietnam to Participate in Russian Fertilizer JV
A high-level accord: (l.) Dmitri Medvedev and (r.) Nguyen Minh Triet shake on it. Russian president Dmitri Medvedev and his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Minh Triet recently signed a joint venture... Air Products Invests in Russia and Poland
Air Products says it will install two high-purity nitrogen generators at Alcoa’s aluminum plant at Samara, Russia. The generators are due onstream in 2009. The... Symrise Expands in Russia and U.S.
Symrise says it has expanded its Moscow facility, adding laboratories for its sweet, savory, and beverage business as well as a center for sensory and consumer research. The investment follows the company’s purchase of... More Stories »
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