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1996


Laporte has sold its European adhesives operation to Elf of France for about £100m.
27-Dec-1996


Yule Catto is acquiring PFW Aroma Chemicals in the Netherlands from Hercules of the US for £21m.
10-Dec-1996


Glaxo Wellcome is acquiring full control of Nippon Glaxo, its joint venture with Shin Nihon Jitsugyo, for £360m.
22-Nov-1996


Allied Colloids has acquired CPS, the US producer of water-soluble polymers, for £230m.
20-Nov-1996


Hickson International has sold its Hickson Manro business to Broomco, a new company that includes some managers from Manro, for £26.5m, as part of its debt reduction programme.
19-Nov-1996


Morgan Crucible has acquired EM Corporation, the lubricants supplier, from Great Lakes Chemical Corp for £16m.
14-Nov-1996


Ellis & Everard has acquired Chemitrade, the Manchester-based distributor of solvents, for £7.4m.
05-Nov-1996


Lawter International of the US is acquiring the resin division of Wolstenholme International for £5.5m.
04-Nov-1996


Quintiles of the US is to acquire Innovex, the UK pharmaceutical industry consultancy, for £500m.
08-Oct-1996


Astra of Sweden is to set up a £62m pharmaceuticals research centre in Loughborough, with the creation of about 200 new jobs.
10-Sep-1996


BTR has sold its controlling stakes in three Taiwanese plastics joint ventures to a consortium comprising Union Petrochemical and USI Far East Corporation, for £191m.
10-Sep-1996


Oxford Biomedica, the gene-therapy concern, is planning a public share offer in November in order to raise £5m for the funding of a lease on a site in Oxford and the recruitment of up to 30 staff.
09-Sep-1996


Plascon of South Africa is acquiring Courtaulds' Taubmans architectural coatings operation in Australia for £17m.
21-Aug-1996


Hodgson Chemicals, the BTP subsidiary, has acquired ICI Surfactants' US-based textile operation for $2.3m.
14-Aug-1996


European Colour is to buy Tor, the specialist coatings maker, for £13m.
01-Aug-1996


Inspec is acquiring Shell's Fine Chemicals business for £200m, with the help of a £101m rights issue.
27-Jul-1996


Reckitt & Colman has sold its 80% stake in Globo SA Tintas e Pigmentos, the Brazilian paints and coatings concern, to Bayer for £48m.
23-Jul-1996


Laporte has disposed of more non-core businesses for a total £23m, including the process chemicals business Gramos, the cleanroon garments operation Countdown Clean Systems, the US pet litter business Waverly Minerals, and its 50% stake in Laporte (Malaysia).
11-Jul-1996


Meconic is buying Phoenix Chemicals, the contract manufacturer, for up to £12m.
03-Jul-1996


Quintiles, the US pharmaceutical research company, is to set up a clinical data management service plant in West Lothian, creating up to 300 jobs.
25-Jun-1996


Celltech is selling Celltech Biologicals to Alusuisse-Lonza of Switzerland for £50m.
13-Jun-1996


Doeflex is acquiring BTP's industrial polymers operation for about £6m.
12-Jun-1996


Appryl, the Elf-BP joint venture, is planning a £100m 300,000 tonnes per year polypropylene plant in Grangemouth, creating up to 200 jobs.
11-Jun-1996


Medeva is buying some former Fisons businesses from Rhone-Poulenc Rorer for £263m, including Rochester, which is made up of Fison's former US headquarters and ten branded drugs.
07-Jun-1996


W Canning, the speciality chemicals concern, has bought Amco Sari, a company that sells combustion improvement additives in France, for £2.1m.
01-Jun-1996


Ellis & Everard is acquiring Giltrain Plastics, the Yorkshire-based supplier of polymers, for £4.15m.
24-May-1996


Centeon, the US-based joint venture between Hoechst and Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, is to buy Delta Biotechnology, the Nottingham-based maker of human proteins, from BOC for £30m.
21-May-1996


BASF is buying Zeneca's textile colours operation for up to £150m, which includes sites in Ellesmere Port, Brazil and North Carolina.
09-May-1996


Hanson has sold its Seven Seas vitamin supplements business to Merck of Germany for £150m.
03-May-1996


Huntsman of the US is to more than double polystyrene production at its Carrington plant near Manchester, creating 30 jobs, as part of a major worldwide investment programme.
09-Apr-1996


Enron Europe has bought ICI's 50% share in their joint venture, Teesside Gas Transportation, for an undisclosed sum.
02-Apr-1996


Elan of Ireland has announced a $600m merger with Athena Neurosciences, the Californian biotechnology concern.
19-Mar-1996


Skyepharma plans to raise £140m on the market to acquire Jago Holdings, the Swiss drug delivery concern.
19-Mar-1996


Zeneca has sold its speciality inks business to Sun Chemical for £40m and is discussing the sale of its textile dyes operation.
08-Mar-1996


Inspec has acquired a polyimide fibres operation from Lenzing of Austria for £5.7m.
06-Mar-1996


ICI is buying Bunge, the South American paints concern, for $390m, its first major acquisition in South America.
05-Mar-1996


Morgan Crucible has bought a 80% stake in Magna Industrial Company, the Hong Kong-based speciality chemicals concern.
08-Feb-1996


Klinge Pharma has bought Ribosepharm, Medeva's cancer products business in Germany, for £54m.
07-Feb-1996


Inspec has acquired a speciality chemical company in the US with plants in Arizona and Kansas, for $29m from Allied Signal.
07-Feb-1996


Harrisons & Crosfield has acquired Daniel Products, the US maker of chemicals for coatings, for $30m.
02-Feb-1996


ICI Explosives is acquiring a 51% stake in Ibernobel of Spain.
13-Jan-1996


Ellis & Everard has acquired George Mann, the US distributor of caustic soda, bleach and chlorine, and Surphos Chemicals, the Benelux surfactants and phosphates distributor.
09-Jan-1996


Brent Chemicals has sold its industrial chemicals activities in Asia to Chemetall, as part of its simplification programme.
05-Jan-1996


BTR has sold its minority stake in Titan, the Malaysian petrochemical concern, for £89m.
03-Jan-1996


Hickson International has sold Hickson Kerley, the US performance chemical operation, to Tessenderlo of Belgium.
03-Jan-1996