Last week, the blog spent 2 days at Wilton in the UK, one of the world’s largest and most integrated chemical manufacturing sites. It also contains some of the world’s major companies, including SABIC, Dow, INEOS, Huntsman and Lucite. The mood was downbeat, as one would expect with operating rates at historically low levels. Critically, […]
Chemicals and the Economy
Kuwait “scraps” K-Dow JV
2008 has not been a good year for M&A in the chemical sector. First, there was the collapse of Hexion’s Huntsman acquisition. Today, the Kuwait government has signalled its intention to “scrap” its $17.4bn deal with Dow to form K-Dow. This is a quite extraordinary decision by a major Middle East government, especially as it […]
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