11.12.2017
- As the end of 2017 nears, Germany’s chemical and pharmaceutical industry is in a positive mood, thanks in particular to a buoyant performance by its main customers in Europe, but...
05.12.2017
- As a UK Parliament-select committee prepared for a public evidence session on Dec. 5, examining scenarios for trading arrangements with the UK post-Brexit, reports were circulating...
30.11.2017
- Germany’s deciding vote in favor of the European Commission’s five-year reprieve for the controversial herbicide chemical glyphosate at the Nov. 27 meeting of the EU’s Standing...
27.11.2017
- Following a supervisory board meeting and a first face-to-face encounter with activist investor White Tale last week, Swiss specialty chemicals producer Clariant said it would...
27.11.2017
- BASF has confirmed it is in discussions with Letter One (L1), a consortium of Russian investors based in Luxembourg and led by Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman, about a merger...
24.11.2017
- In a little over a year, the UK will be withdrawing from the European Union. Yet the future of the country and its chemicals industry is even more uncertain now than it was when a...
24.11.2017
- Germany is known for its rigorous environmental standards, its obsession with renewable energy, and high labor cost. Yet Germany’s chemical industry continues to be number one in...
24.11.2017
- The European chemical industry is of major importance for economic development and wealth, providing modern products and materials and enabling solutions in virtually all sectors...
23.11.2017
- Coatings rivals AkzoNobel of the Netherlands and US-based Axalta have ended their talks about a potential multibillion merger to create what they had said would be “a leading...
22.11.2017
- Amsterdam, the Netherlands, has won the much-coveted prize of providing a new home for the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and its nearly 900 employees, beating out last-round...
