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BASF and Sinopec Expand Capacity at Nanjing

06.08.2021 -

German chemical giant BASF and its Chinese joint venture partner Sinopec have unveiled plans to expand several downstream plants at the Nanjing petrochemicals complex...

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Danimer Buys Novomer for $152 million

05.08.2021 -

US bioplastics company Danimer Scientific has agreed to pay $152 million cash for Novomer, a developer and producer of biodegradable materials. Both companies’ boards of...

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LYB Deals With Fallout from La Porte Blast

05.08.2021 -

LyondellBasell (LYB) has announced it is restarting its polymers and olefins units at La Porte, Texas, USA, where a production facility was hit by an acetic acid leak on...

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EU Commission Orders up to 100 million Novavax Covid Vaccine Doses

05.08.2021 -

The European Commission has finalized an advance purchase agreement with Novavax covering 100 million doses of the US biotech’s protein-based Covid-19 vaccine initially...

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Nouryon Licenses CiD Technology to China

04.08.2021 -

Nouryon has agreed to license its Continuous Initiator Dosing (CiD) technology for PVC production to China’s Shaanxi Beiyuan Chemical Group for five years. The Dutch...

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BASF and Eni to Develop Bio-based Propanol

04.08.2021 -

BASF and Eni have agreed to jointly develop new technology to produce bio-propanol from glycerin, a byproduct from the production of industrial biodiesel, or fatty acid...

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Sanofi to Buy mRNA Biotech Translate Bio

04.08.2021 -

French drugmaker Sanofi has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Translate Bio, the clinical-stage mRNA therapeutics company with which it is currently cooperating on...

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Curia Buys LakePharma

03.08.2021 -

US CDMO Curia, formerly AMRI, has agreed to acquire LakePharma, a privately held biologics drug discovery, clinical research, development and manufacturing organization...