A few of this week's C&EN issue:
- Melody Bomgardner has a fascinating look at sports nutrition supplements.
- Disappointed to see that Cool Ranch Doritos are not on the list.
- Also from Melody Bomgardner, looks like 4th quarter chemical companies earnings are not all that hot.
- ChemChina bought Syngenta; article by Alex Scott.
- Has corporate China gotten a reputation, one way or another when they purchase global companies? Doesn't seem like they go in and swing the ax, but I dunno.
- Jeff Johnson writes up the final CSB report on the West, Texas ammonium nitrate disaster.
- Intereting Q&A by Kara Allen on chemical technicians in industry; this article deserves more comment later.
I don't know what the outcome was but another Chinese acquisition that has some relevance to the Syngenta situation was UniTao's purchase of an ex-Boehringer Ingelheim plant in Petersburg: http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2014/11/chinese-buyer-resurrects-us-boehringer-plant
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