14.04.2019
- Merck KGaA has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Versum Materials for $53 per share in cash after the plans received the green light from the German group’s executive board...
12.04.2019
- Royal Dutch Shell has announced it is severing ties with the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) industry association over that group’s lack of support for climate...
11.04.2019
- Surfactants are used in a wide spectrum of applications. This broad range of use, among other things, will be at the center of interest of the 11th World Surfactants Congress to be...
11.04.2019
- The chemical industry is one of the most international sectors with activity dominated by cross border transactions. Chinese and other Asian firms have been particularly busy...
10.04.2019
- Availability and supply of essential resources for chemical production are getting increasingly challenging. At the same time, mankind has developed a throwaway mentality that is...
09.04.2019
- Digital line of sight is a connection (or thread) of data throughout an asset’s lifecycle to ensure information integrity, accuracy, and timeliness to access. It is achieved...
09.04.2019
- Unless something highly unexpected happens, it looks as if Germany’s Merck KGaA has clinched the prize it was seeking, the takeover of US electronics industry supplier Versum...
08.04.2019
- Developed and technically proven around 1995, micro reaction technology was probably highly overestimated for the first 10 years and underestimated for the next 10 years. Meanwhile...
03.04.2019
- In a move to accelerate the development of its oncology franchise, AstraZeneca has agreed a $6.9 billion deal with Japanese pharma major Daiichi Sankyo to share rights to a new...
31.03.2019
- US science services company Thermo Fisher Scientific has agreed to buy Brammer Bio for around $1.7 billion, the latest in a spate of gene therapy acquisitions this year by major...
