19.02.2015
- German chemical producer Lanxess plans to hold its 2014 shareholders' dividend at the 50 cents per share it paid for 2013. At this level, the company's management board headed by...
19.02.2015
- As the search narrows for a successor to Chris Viehbacher, who was dismissed last year as CEO of French drugmaker Sanofi, French newspaper Le Figaro has identified Bayer HealthCare...
19.02.2015
- Three months after acquiring US Botox producer Allergan for $66 billion, Ireland-based drugmaker Actavis has announced it will adopt Allergan as the name of the merged corporate...
19.02.2015
- Two years after the devastating explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, and three months after four workers were killed in a chemical leak at a DuPont plant in La Porte...
18.02.2015
- Arkema has extended until January 2016 its call option to increase its share in Sunke, the acrylics joint venture with Jurong Chemical in China. Exercising the option would give...
18.02.2015
- DuPont has fired another verbal salvo at activist shareholder Nelson Peltz. In a letter to shareholders, the US chemical giant countered Peltz's criticism of its performance...
18.02.2015
- Platform Specialty Products, a US company based in Miami, has completed its $3.5 billion acquisition of Dublin, Ireland-based Arysta LifeScience. Announced in October 2014, the...
17.02.2015
- Swiss agrochemicals group Syngenta may file counterclaims against some of the more than 750 US grain farmers and exporters who have sued the world's largest agrochemicals group...
17.02.2015
- A newly discovered fast-progressing strain of HIV discovered in Cuba has been found to lead to AIDS as much as three times faster than the most common strains of the virus, a study...
17.02.2015
- Plant Impact of the UK and German-based Bayer CropScience have signed an additional agreement to develop yield enhancing technologies for soy cultivation. The latest agreement...
