DSM tenders Danisco shareholding

(DSM) -- Royal DSM, the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company, announces that it has tendered its 4.95% stake in Danisco to DuPont. Upon completion of the DuPont offer of DKK 700 per ordinary Danisco share, DSM expects cash proceeds of EUR 222 million and to report a book profit of EUR 140 million before tax as an exceptional item.

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(Lanxess) -- Lanxess is paying EUR 310 million for the elastomer business of the Dutch company Royal DSM N.V. DSM Elastomers produces the synthetic rubber ethylene-propylene-diene monomer (EPDM) under the brand name Keltan. Lanxess is financing the acquisition with existing liquidity.

DSM Elastomers, based in Sittard-Geleen in the Netherlands, has roughly 420 employees worldwide. DSM Elastomers operates an EPDM facility with an annual capacity of 160 KT in Sittard-Geleen. An additional EPDM facility with a capacity of around 40 KTa is located in Triunfo, Brazil. LANXESS plans to transfer the headquarters for the combined EPDM business from Marl (Germany) to Sittard-Geleen.

The Technical Rubber Products (TRP) business unit of Lanxess, headed by Guenther Weymans, will sell its EPDM products under the brand names Buna EP and Keltan.

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(Lanxess) -- Specialty chemicals company Lanxess is investing EUR 17 million in the expansion of its production capacities for polychloroprene solid rubber. The expansion at the Dormagen site is scheduled for completion by the end of 2012 and will increase production by 10 percent to 63 KTa.

Lanxess produces and markets polychloroprene solid rubber under the brand name Baypren. Uses for this product range include the production of cable sheathing, hoses, belts, seals and air springs.

The expansion work will also see the implementation of a new production technology that will enable Lanxess to operate more energy and resource efficiently and thus more ecologically.

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(BASF) -- BASF offers the packaging industry a variety of barrier solutions that demonstrate a high effectiveness in preventing mineral oil residues from migrating from cardboard food packaging into food. This has been confirmed through a series of studies conducted by the official Food Safety Authority of the Canton of Zurich on the BASF products Ultramid, Epotal A 816, Ecovio FS Paper and specially developed dispersions. Four different solutions are available for coating every type of food packaging, including paper, cardboard and film. In 2010, a study by Zurich Food Safety Authority scientists using a dedicated measuring method had detected alarming levels of mineral oil residues from cardboard packaging in food. The same method was used in the testing of the BASF products.

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(Styron) -- The new Doha International Airport which is currently being built in the middle of the desert is scheduled to open for business in 2011. It will handle 50 million passengers a year.

Leading independent polycarbonate extruder Plastic Materials Industry dott. Gallina proved to be the ideal materials supplier for the project, with extensive experience of producing multi-wall sheet and panel systems in a range of designs and colors.

Using Styron's Calibre 302 resins, Gallina developed a UV-protected multiwall polycarbonate facade with the high thermal insulation properties (U-value of 0.5 W/m2K) needed to keep temperatures within the hangar under control. The sheet was used in the company's arcoPlus 626 modular system, formed of co-extruded six wall polycarbonate panels 20mm thick and with 600mm modular width, which are designed to withstand wind load forces.

A stunning visual effect was created by installing dual color polycarbonate sheets in the system. Using Styron's Calibre 302 resins, Gallina combined a clear tint for the outside facing and a blue tint for the inside facing.

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