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...The billionaire industrialist had announced a year earlier the sale of his listed chemicals company, Huntsman Corp, to the private equity titan Apollo Global Management for $10.6bn....
...The merger of Sinochem Group and ChemChina into a titan with $152bn sales represents the sweeping consolidation taking place in China....
...By 2050, she said it would account for more revenue than its oil and gas and chemicals businesses combined....
...’s News Corp....
...Mitsubishi Chemical has hired Jean-Marc Gilson as its new chief, the first appointment of a foreign boss in Japan since the 2018 arrest and ousting of Carlos Ghosn....
...Some industry titans wore a brave face, including The Carlyle Group founder David Rubenstein, below, who wasn’t taking any chances by shaking hands....
...Piper Sandler Companies has acquired The Valence Group, an M&A advisory company that will form the investment bank’s new chemicals group....
...Ineos in talks with ConocoPhillips over North Sea assets Ineos, the privately owned energy and chemicals group run by Britain’s richest man, is in exclusive talks with US oil major ConocoPhillips to acquire...
...It has instructed Saudi Aramco to pursue a $70bn takeover of PIF’s 70 per cent stake in Sabic, the Saudi state chemicals group....
...Lotte Chemical Titan plans to use the IPO proceeds to build a naphtha cracker in Indonesia and to expand a cracker in Malaysia....
...When Google recently tried to move some engineers urgently from Malaysia to Thailand, the search engine titan hit a roadblock....
...Sanofi is a pillar of the French life sciences industry and has ties to another domestic titan, L’Oréal, which owns 9 per cent of the company....
...Towering chemicals tycoon Jim Ratcliffe cannot be accused of picking fights with littler adversaries....
...Most of the top 10 investments were in oil and gas, chemicals and property....
...The most successful examples are China’s state-backed titans – CNPC, Sinopec and Cnooc....
...The Israeli government this week moved to block Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan’s attempt to buy rival fertiliser group Israel Chemicals, derailing a $15bn deal to create the world’s largest potash producer...
...After being showered with awards and feted as an industrial titan before the financial crisis, Mr Dankner’s fortunes have fallen as some of IDB’s investments soured, including a 2 per cent stake in Credit...
Crude output will take years to recover from dispute with neighbour
...Israel says it will block Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan’s attempt to buy rival fertiliser group Israel Chemicals, derailing a $15bn deal to create the world’s largest potash producer....
...Monday’s announcement brings to a close a David and Goliath saga that saw China Gas pitted against state-owned titan Sinopec, the world’s fourth-largest company by sales, and ENN, a Chinese natural gas distributor...
...Here we witnessed not just global titans establishing a presence in China but emerging local companies destined for the global stage....
...state-owned oil and gas group, on Thursday took a big step towards securing supplies of liquefied natural gas from North America for the Asian market by agreeing to buy Canada’s Progress Energy Resources Corp...
...Malaysia’s national oil company is also talking to Japanese firms Itochu and Mitsubishi as well as Dow Chemical as it seeks to tap surging Asian demand and diversify its earnings, the sources said....
...Life Technologies says its new Ion Proton sequencer – a $149,000 instrument about the size of a laser printer – can read a whole human genome in less than a day for $1,000 including all chemicals, running...
Chinese groups have shown the most interest, writes Bernard Simon
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