21.08.2019
- As widely expected, Bayer has definitively agreed to sell its animal health business to Eli Lilly spinoff Elanco Animal Health. The $7.6 billion deal will create the market’s...
16.08.2019
- DuPont appears to be gearing up for another major divestment that could become one of the chemical industry’s biggest transactions this year, reports the Bloomberg news agency...
09.08.2019
- Bayer has announced it will pay for $240 million upfront to acquire all of BluerockTherapeutics, a privately held US-headquartered biotech in which it currently holds more than 40%...
08.08.2019
- In a transaction valued at around $2.4 billion including net debt, US small molecule innovator and API specialist Cambrex has agreed to be acquired by an affiliate of the Permira...
31.07.2019
- Cancer sufferers in the US seem to be filing new lawsuits that charge they were harmed by Monsanto’s glyphosate-based Roundup herbicide faster than current franchise owner Bayer...
26.07.2019
- For two days this week, Clariant dominated European business and stock market news. After dropping the first bombshell on Wednesday (Jul. 24) that its CEO, Ernesto Occhiello, had...
19.07.2019
- Representatives from 20 international chemical companies, including scientific experts and chief technology officers, attended a collaborative innovation workshop yesterday at BASF...
19.07.2019
- These days we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the landing of Apollo 11 and the first steps on the moon. Air Products, an industrial gases provider based in the US, played a...
17.07.2019
- US federal judge Vince Chhabria has pared a California jury’s $80 million damage award to Roundup user Edwin Hardeman by $55 million to just over $25 million. The steep reduction...
16.07.2019
- The 34th and, so far, biggest edition of Chemspec Europe attracted a total of 4,295 trade visitors from 53 countries to the exhibition grounds of Messe Basel, Switzerland. During...
