The Syngenta deal, if completed, would overtake CNOOC’s 2012 purchase of Canadian energy company Nexen as the biggest foreign acquisition by a Chinese company
Records indicate workers at DuPont plant in La Porte, Texas, may have been exposed for years to chemical fumes
Methyl mercaptan leak at plant near Houston killed four workers, hospitalized one other, DuPont officials said
Germany-based BASF cut pre-tax profit forecast by as much as US$5 billion in wake of slower global economic growth
Deal requires antitrust approval, is expected to close in next year’s first quarter, according to Germany-based BASF
The reorganization includes closing the Paper Chemicals division headquarters in Basel, Switzerland and cutting about 50 positions globally
Statement of claim blames pesticides made by Bayer and Syngenta for mass bee deaths
Canada’s total manufacturing sales edged down one per cent for month when chemicals sector excluded
California-based Apple ordered its suppliers to stop using benzene, n-hexane during final product assembly
Chemical spill of industrial bleach happened at Cascades Inc.’s Norampac plant in Kingsey Falls, Que.
