CHEMICAL UPDATE
JULY 2011
McIlvaine Company
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ACQUISITIONS
Ecolab to Buy Nalco for $5.4 Billion to Add Water Treatment
Braskem Buying Dow's PP Business
Akzonobel to Acquire China's Leading Specialty Surfactant Producer
Eastman to Acquire Sterling Chemicals
EXPANSIONS / JOINT VENTURES
Dow and Saudi Aramco Announce JV to build World-Scale Chemicals Project
Lanxess Building $40m Changzhou Plant
Nova Chemicals to Construct Two New Polyethylene Lines in Canada
BASF Boosts R&D on Electromobility
Flow Polymers Plans Another Line for Sureflo Additive
Amyris Expands Into Asia, Forms Novvi S.A.
Palram Adding Extrusion Capacity in Pennsylvania