US glue maker swoops on AIM-listed manufacturer in £659m deal Industrials A US glue maker is set to hand London’s junior stock market another blow after snapping up medtech firm Advanced Medical Solutions. HB Fuller said on Thursday it would acquire the AIM-listed company in a deal that values it at £659m. The US manufacturer – which specialises in industrial adhesives and chemical products – offered [...]
The UK chemicals sector is in trouble Opinion From ammonia to plastics, there can be no modern economy without a functioning chemicals industry, and Britain's is in peril.
Ratcliffe’s Ineos could sell off assets as chemicals sector struggles Markets Ineos is reportedly considering selling off parts of its business, as the chemicals giant attempts to shore up its finances amid a wider industry downturn. The firm founded and chaired by Jim Ratcliffe has held preliminary talks about selling off parts of its vinyls business Inovyn, Europe’s largest producer of PVC, a plastic widely used [...]
Government injects £120m into Ineos’s Grangemouth plant December 17, 2025 The government has piled over £100m into Britain’s last remaining ethylene plant in Grangemouth, saving hundreds of livelihoods after its owner warned that sky-high energy costs had left it on the brink of closure. Ministers inked a “landmark partnership” with Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos on Wednesday to secure the future of the Falkirk plant, which [...]
Sir Jim Ratcliffe: Act now or five million jobs will be lost October 9, 2025 Sir Jim Ratcliffe has called on Europe’s leaders to save the continent’s chemicals industry or risk losing millions of jobs. The founder and chairman of Ineos has urged politicians to make an “eleventh-hour intervention” at what he has described as a “moment of reckoning” for the industry. Sir Jim, who is also known as a [...]
Croda: Sales at FTSE 100 chemicals firm boom April 23, 2025 Sales at FTSE 100 chemicals firm Croda International jumped by eight per cent in the first quarter of 2025, thanks to strong performance across all arms of its business. Every arm of the cosmetics, detergents and pesticides chemicals provider recorded positive growth. Life sciences achieved the best performance the company has revealed in a stock exchange [...]