A labor union pension fund has sued Houston's Lyondell Chemical Co. for entering into a deal this month to sell the company for what it said is too low a price. The Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 51 ...

NEW YORK – Basell, a division of billionaire investor Leonard Blavatnik’s Access Industries, said Tuesday it will acquire rival chemical company Huntsman Corp. in a cash deal worth $5.6 billion. The ...

Basell, which is owned by the privately held industrial group Access Industries, is offering $48 per share for the company, a 20% premium over the closing share price on July 16, the day before the ...

Chemical and plastics maker Basell said on Tuesday it would buy U.S.-based Lyondell Chemical in a deal valued at about $12.14 billion, giving Basell access to a key raw material and Lyondell's ...

NEW YORK – Chemicals and plastics maker Basell said Tuesday it would buy Lyondell Chemical Co. (LYO) for about $12.72 billion, continuing a wave of consolidation in the chemical industry and giving ...

LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 5, 2005--BASF and Shell Chemicals are to sell their 50-50 joint venture Basell, one of the world's leading manufacturers of polyolefins, to a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Huntsman announced late on Tuesday that it had received a rival proposal from Hexion Specialty Chemicals, owned ...

Chemical maker Basell said on Tuesday it would buy Lyondell Chemical Co. for about $12.14 billion, giving it access to Lyondell's commodity assets and refining capacity. Basell has been seeking ...

DUSSELDORF, GERMANY (Oct. 28, 6:30 a.m. EST) – Basell Polyolefins quietly is dropping its Hivalloy resin product line, after trying for nearly a decade to commercialize the high-performance olefinic ...

HOOFDDORP, Netherlands, and HOUSTON, July 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Basell, the global leader in polyolefins, and Lyondell Chemical Company (NYSE: LYO), one of the ...