18.12.2014
- French engineering contractor Technip has announced plans to acquire Air Liquide's Zimmer polymer technology business based at Frankfurt, Germany, by the end of 2014, pending all...
18.12.2014
- Sweden's Nexam Chemical and Germany's BASF have decided not to extend the exclusivity agreement for PA 6.6 compounds containing Nexam Chemical's crosslinker. As part of the deal...
17.12.2014
- The US Chemical Safety Board has identified process safety management (PSM) as a key area in which it sees scope for improvement in facilities dealing with chemicals. Appointed by...
17.12.2014
- Eight Greenpeace activists who in March of this year staged a protest at the Cincinnati, Ohio, headquarters of US consumer products giant Procter & Gamble over the deforestation of...
17.12.2014
- With effect from April 1, 2015, German chemical producer Lanxess will merge its group functions Treasury (TR) and Investor Relations (IR) into a new double function called Treasury...
17.12.2014
- Bayer's Eylea (VEGF Trap-Eye) is not more effective than its competitor Lucentis to treat patients with diabetic macular edema, the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in...
16.12.2014
- Chevron Phillips Chemical has completed the expansion of ethylene capacity at its Sweeny complex in Old Ocean, Texas. The capacity addition is part of the group's US Gulf Coast...
16.12.2014
- A feud has sprung up in Switzerland over the planned sale of a controlling stake in family-controlled building chemicals producer Sika to French conglomerate Saint-Gobain for about...
16.12.2014
- Bayer has failed in the last round of its effort to block the sale of a cheap generic version of its cancer drug Nexavar in India. In a Dec. 12 decision, the country's Supreme...
15.12.2014
- Wacker has reorganized its silicone distribution business in the Nordic countries. As of March 1, 2015, Lindberg & Lund Oy, a subsidiary of the Norwegian chemicals distributor...
