Rohm and Haas News

Philadelphia is home to many big, old companies, but few big, bold companies. Companies that can measure their histories in centuries, not decades, but whose growth days are over.

Dow Chemical's pricey acquisition of Rohm & Haas looks like a good idea after all, as it increases the company's exposure to high-margin products--and could boost its bottom line.

Hats off to Norm Armstrong Jr., who moved up a notch in the Washington antitrust hierarchy.

Reliance Industries makes move on LyondellBasell Posted on November 23, 2009 2:00 PM Reliance Industries Ltd., India's biggest private sector company, said Saturday that it has made a preliminary, non-binding offer for bankrupt petrochemicals company LyondellBasell Industries AF SCA which news reports said could be worth at least $10 billion.

In a signal of confidence for the future of mergers-and-acquisitions , Lazard Ltd.

Analyst Report ) is planning to sell more non-core assets in 2010 to pay off debt from its $16.5 billion acquisition of rival Rohm and Haas in April of this year.

Dow Chemical was able to gladden market players Thursday with a presentation to investors and further moves to raise cash so that it can reduce a heavy debt load brought on by its troubled acquistion of Rohm & Haas.

AkzoNobel is to enhance its portfolio of sustainable technologies after signing an agreement with The Dow Chemical Company to acquire its powder coatings activities.

Dow Coating Materials, a division of The Dow Chemical Company, announced today that it has been awarded the Euroclip Award for best presentation at Eurocoat 2009 Trade Fair and Congress.

The FTC is seeking public comments on a petition by Dow Chemical Company to modify a Commission consent order issued on March 31, 2009, and made final on April 9, 2009.

Moss Point Mayor Aneice Liddell has big plans for her small city on the Escatawpa River, a city under economic siege long before Hurricane Katrina.

Brondeau next president and CEO of FMC Corp. Philadelphia Business Journal - by Natalie Kostelni Staff Writer Chemical company FMC Corp.

Chemical company FMC Corp. said Friday it named Pierre Brondeau as its president and CEO, effective Jan.

Delphi Automotive LLP, which exited bankruptcy protection last month, said today that it has created a new board that will be led by former DuPont Chairman John Krol.

A conversation between county officials and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency might have prompted a state investigation of the McCullom Lake brain cancer cases.

Insurance companies are uniformly opposed to the government insurance public option, but they are not the only ones lining up against what has become a lightning rod in the debate around the health-care overhaul in Washington.

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County and state health investigations into brain cancers in the McCullom Lake area might get reviewed by an agency of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A lifelong McHenry resident became the 30th person to join the McCullom Lake brain cancer lawsuits.

Workers at a French chemical plant owned by the U.S. company Dow Chemical freed their boss Tuesday after holding him overnight to protest the closing of the factory in the Loire Valley.