12.03.2019
- The EU member state commitee on Mar. 7 again postponed a decision on whether to restrict the use of titanium dioxide (TiO2) after a qualified majority in favor or opposed could not...
11.03.2019
- Entegris and Versum Materials continued to hold onto plans for a $4 billion all-stock merger late last week as Germany’s Merck KGaA continued trying to wedge the two US companies...
08.03.2019
- Biogen has agreed to acquire Nightstar Therapeutics, a clinical-stage gene therapy company based in London, UK. The US drug firm will pay Nightstar shareholders $25.50 for each...
07.03.2019
- Leading chemical distributor Brenntag has acquired New England Resins & Pigments (NERP) based in Woburn, Massachusetts, USA. The transaction’s financial terms were not disclosed...
05.03.2019
- German chemicals producer Evonik has agreed to sell its Methacrylates business to private equity investor Advent International for an enterprise value of €3 billion. The plans...
04.03.2019
- At the beginning of March, Messer Industries, new joint venture of Germany-based industrial gases producer Messer and private equity group CVC Capital Partners, completed the...
28.02.2019
- The Board of Directors of Tempe, Arizona-based electronic chemicals supplier Versum Materials has rejected Merck's unsolicited and non-binding proposal to acquire Versum for $48...
27.02.2019
- As the first of a new series of court cases brought by cancer patients against the former agrochemicals giant Monsanto – now part of Bayer – got under way in San Francisco on Feb...
25.02.2019
- Chemspec Europe is Europe’s premier marketplace for the fine and speciality chemicals industry. The exhibition offers manufacturers, suppliers and distributors of fine and...
22.02.2019
- Reorientation and tradition, transformation and experience, concentration and competence: How does a company manage change in times of digital transformation? M+W, a German...
