14.07.2015
- French chemical producer Arkema and the French subsidiary of Canada’s Hydro-Québec, SCE France, have agreed a research partnership for energy storage chemicals. In particular, the...
14.07.2015
- Private equity investor Platform Specialty Products has offered around $2.3 billion, including debt, for all shares of UK-based Alent, a manufacturer of electronic chemicals...
13.07.2015
- Lego, Danish manufacturer of the popular plastic bricks for toy applications, set aside 1 billion Danish Krone for research, development and implementation of new, sustainable, raw...
13.07.2015
- Swiss chemicals distributor DKSH has acquired specialty chemicals distributor Andreas Jennow, a major supplier of raw materials to the Nordic and Baltic countries. The Swiss...
13.07.2015
- BASF has opened its first online store especially for the Chinese market on the business-to-business platform Alibaba, becoming one of the first multinational chemical companies to...
13.07.2015
- In another move to sharpen its focus on oncology, diabetes and respiratory disorders, AstraZeneca has announced it is selling all non-US rights for Entocort, a treatment for Crohn...
10.07.2015
- On Friday, July 3rd 2015 Wiley-VCH editors Michael Reubold, Martin Friedrich, Roy Fox and I were hosted by chemical company Evonik at the Hockenheim Ring to attend the DMV Gran...
10.07.2015
- Financing for UK life science companies from equity markets and venture capital soared in 2014 and has remained buoyant throughout 2015 as the industry recovers from a long...
10.07.2015
- Axalta Coating Systems has acquired Metalak Benelux, for more than 60 years the exclusive distributor of the coatings producer’s Spies Hecker refinish coating products sold in the...
10.07.2015
- Sanofi has announced plans to extend its collaboration with Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) to jointly develop a new single, fixed-dose combination therapy for malaria. The...
