Chemicals
DuPont to pay $50 mn to help clean up mercury contamination
16 Dec 2016
DuPont has agreed to pay the largest natural resource settlement in Virginia history for mercury contamination, making the settlement the eighth largest-natural resource damage settlement in US history
Linde, Praxair renew merger talks
30 Nov 2016
Chinese giants Sinochem Group and ChemChina in merger talks
14 Oct 2016
The deal has been proposed by the Chinese central government as part of its plan to reduce the number of state-owned companies and create larger, globally more competitive businesses
French energy giant Total to sell speciality chemicals unit Atotech to Carlyle for $3.2 bn
07 Oct 2016
German industrial-gas giant Linde ends merger talks with US rival Praxair
13 Sep 2016
Linde, based in Munich, opted out of merger talks as it wanted to have certain operations to be based at its Munich headquarters for effective management control