23.12.2014
- Declining crude oil prices are taking their toll on US petrochemical companies that in the recent past have been riding the shale gas boom and expanding their production using...
23.12.2014
- In a potential two-stage deal, S&W Seed Company, which describes itself as the world's largest "non-dormant" alfalfa seed company, plans to acquire all of DuPont Pioneer's alfalfa...
22.12.2014
- Swiss pharmaceutical producer group Roche said it would discontinue a late-stage study of investigational anti-amyloid medicine gantenerumab in pre-dementia Alzheimer's disease...
22.12.2014
- DuPont has revealed more details of its planned spin-off of its Performance Chemicals business. The Wilmington, Delaware-based US chemical group has filed a registration statement...
22.12.2014
- BASF has agreed to sell its share in the 50:50 joint venture Ellba Eastern on Singapore's Jurong Island Singapore for an undisclosed sum to its partner Shell. The transaction is...
19.12.2014
- In the face of only sluggish progress in finding support for the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment pact (TTIP) between the European Union and the United States, EU...
19.12.2014
- The EU's member state committee (MSC) has unanimously agreed to identify the phthalate DEHP as a "substance of very high concern" (SVHC) to the environment but could not agree on...
19.12.2014
- Despite assurances by CEO Kurt Bock a month ago that BASF would most likely complete its planned asset swap with Russian gas conglomerate Gazprom this year as planned, the deal has...
18.12.2014
- From January 1st 2015, Frank Wegener will join International Chemical Investors Group (ICIG) as President of WeylChem Group of Companies. In addition, he will assume the...
18.12.2014
- The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued new rules restricting the use of several chemicals in products imported into the country but no longer produced there...
