Brussels, 01/12/2010 (Agence Europe) - On 30 November, the European Commission cleared the proposed acquisition of Cognis, a German company supplying specialty chemicals, nutritional ingredients and functional products, by German chemical group BASF. BASF will, however, be required to divest its activities in the sector of hydroxy monomers, a sector in which the activities of the two parties overlap and where the merged entity would have had a strong position in a market where the...