Kuraray’s takeover of DuPont GLSV business green-lighted

The European Commission approved, on 29 April, the acquisition of American chemical company DuPont's (glass laminating solutions/vinyls - GLSV) business by the Japanese company Kuraray. The company is expected to give up its PVB film production facility for laminated safety glass in Uentrop, Germany. The Commission believes that the company was in danger of having a dominant position in the polyvinyl butyral (PVB) sector, a polymer used to manufacture laminated safety glass particularly for the automobile and architecture sectors. Without…