After a decadelong standoff over factory workers who died or became ill due to chemical exposure, Samsung vowed to accept a yet-to-be-determined settlement from an independent mediator.
Many of the lawn lords in my neighborhood use performance-enhancing chemicals to an extent that would embarrass even the Russian Olympic team.
Platform Specialty Products Corp. has agreed to sell its agricultural-chemicals business to UPL Corp. for $4.2 billion in cash.
Saudi Aramco said it’s in early talks to buy a stake in one of the world’s largest petrochemical companies, an acquisition that would boost the state-run oil giant’s downstream operations.
French aviation investigators have concluded that a cockpit fire likely caused the crash of an EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo two years ago and complained of a lack of cooperation on the probe from Egyptian authorities.
After more than 100 years of making beauty products in the U.S., Avon is selling its last domestic factory to a French cosmetics manufacturer.
A single chairman has been named to lead China’s two state-owned industrial chemical giants, a move that likely foreshadows the long-expected combination of the two companies.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating PPG Industries after the company fired its controller last month, accusing him of directing subordinates to override internal controls to improperly raise profit measures, the paint maker said.
After nearly 40 years at Monsanto, the company that spread genetically engineered seed across the U.S. heartland and beyond, now-former chief executive Hugh Grant doesn’t know exactly what’s next, aside from a desire to stay in agriculture. “We didn’t just lead an industry—we kind of formed it,” he says.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has ejected numerous blue-chip industrial companies over the past decade in an effort to adapt a 19th-century index to a 21st-century economy. That path has become increasingly fraught, in part because of the limitations of how the index is constructed.
Chemical companies LyondellBasell Industries and Braskem said that they have entered into exclusive talks regarding a potential deal.
The world’s appetite for oil should remain robust throughout next year even as U.S. production continues to dominate supply growth, the International Energy Agency said.
The hardest part about disarming North Korea may be knowing where to start.
Companies like Eli Lilly and GlaxoSmithKline are investing in automation with the hope of transforming drug discovery from an enterprise where humans do manual experiments to one where robots handle thousands of samples around the clock.
Global buyout firm Apax Partners is eyeing the sale of Azelis in a deal that could value the European specialty chemicals distributor at up to $2.35 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
U.S. strikes against Syrian chemical weapons sites this spring were “sufficiently limited” that the Trump administration didn’t need Congress’s approval to launch them, the Justice Department said.
Chinese conglomerate that backed out of $5.2 billion deal for a Hong Kong skyscraper has defaulted on a set of U.S. dollar bonds—the third time this year an Asian company has defaulted on its U.S. dollar debt.
Safety plans fell short of industry standards at an Arkema chemical plant that caught fire in Texas following Hurricane Harvey last year, but the standards were probably too weak to prevent the crisis anyway, a chemical safety investigation probe has found.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt said that keeping chemical contamination out of drinking water is “a national priority” and announced a four-part plan to address dangers from one group of potentially hazardous chemicals.
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