UK chemicals firm Croda International completes takeover

Chemicals firm Croda International, which is based in Goole, East Yorkshire, has completed the £410m (€608.5m) acquisition of Uniqema from ICI.

Uniqema, which makes ingredients for consumer products such as suncream, is Netherlands-based but has 380 staff at a sales and manufacturing site in England's Teesside, as well as a further 130 people at Bromborough, Merseyside.