Sensient Technologies Corporation Friday announced that it has reached agreement to acquire its joint venture partners’ interest in Les Colorants Wackherr do Brasil. The transaction is expected to be completed before the end of the year and will give Sensient full ownership of the cosmetic color and ingredients company.
The business is located in Sao Paulo, [...]

Cobalt Technologies, a leading developer of next generation bio-based chemicals and Rhodia, a specialty chemical company, signed agreements for a strategic alliance to develop bio n-butanol refineries throughout Latin America.
Under the terms of the alliance, Cobalt and Rhodia will work together to deploy Cobalt’s technology for the conversion of sugar cane bagasse into n-butanol for [...]

Tredegar Corporation announced Wednesday that its subsidiary, Tredegar Film Products Corporation, is to acquire 100% of the equity interests of Terphane Holdings LLC, a leading manufacturer of specialty polyester films with operations in Brazil and the United States.
Terphane is currently owned by Vision Capital, an international investment firm. The company currently produces over 38,000 tons [...]

Presidents Dilma Rousseff (Brazil) and Jacob Zuma (South Africa) and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (India) met on 18 October for the 5th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Dialogue Forum. The Summit took place at a critical time globally, when the world economy is faced with serious challenges and [...]

U.S. based EnerSys, the global leader in stored energy solutions for industrial applications, Monday announced the completion of its acquisition of Industrial Battery Holding S.A.
Battery Holding S.A. is the parent company of EnerSystem, a market leader in the South American motive power and reserve power battery markets. EnerSystem has more than 20 years of experience [...]

Mercosul and Palestine met in Ramallah on the 16th and 17th October to substantially advance in the finalization of a Free Trade Agreement. The negotiation of this Agreement reflects the support of Mercosul countries to an independent and economically viable Palestine, coexisting in peace with all its neighbors.
During the meeting, both sides reviewed the draft [...]

Celesio, one of the leading international service providers in the pharmaceutical and healthcare markets, Thursday announced the acquisition of 60 per cent of the Brazilian Oncoprod Group, São Paulo. Oncoprod is the leading wholesaler for specialty pharmaceuticals in Brazil.
“The Brazilian pharma market offers many opportunities for growth,” noted Markus Pinger, Chairman of the Management Board [...]

Dynamis Energy and Planova Wednesday launched a partnership to pursue opportunities in South America’s growing waste management market.  Under the agreement, the companies will work together to build and manage Waste-to-Energy facilities in Brazil, Argentina and Peru.
“Planova’s position in the market offers both companies substantial opportunity for growth.  At every level of business and government, [...]

Affinion Group Inc. Tuesday announced that it has expanded its geographic footprint through the launch of operations in Brazil.
With the inclusion of this fast-growing market to its existing presence, the Company is able to provide innovative, best-in-class programs in consumer savings, privacy, protection and loyalty solutions to its clients in 17 countries across 4 continents.
Affinion [...]

Corvil, a provider of latency management systems for high performance trading and market data, Monday announced that Americas Trading Group (ATG) is using Corvil’s latency management system to monitor the performance of its Latin American ultra-low latency execution platform which delivers seamless access to all major Latin America markets.
ATG offers rapid access to a portfolio [...]