26.09.2014
- Lufthansa Cargo is simplifying the invoicing model for Cool/td shipments. The sender is now free to select the number of required rental days, the number of additional fees will be...
25.09.2014
- US-based Acorda Therapeutics has acquired privately held Civitas Therapeutics for $525 million to gain access to a Parkinson's disease drug in late-stage development. With the buy...
25.09.2014
- BASF will dissolve its paper chemicals division from Jan. 1, 2015 and spread its products and activities across other divisions of the Performance Products segment, where they fit...
25.09.2014
- Petrochemicals giant LyondellBasell said it is weighing further expansion of its ethylene capacity at Channelview, Texas, potentially adding as much as 550 million lb/y (nearly 250...
24.09.2014
- Frank H. Lutz (45) has been appointed CFO of Bayer MaterialScience effective October 1, 2014. He succeeds Dr. Axel Steiger-Bagel, who takes over on November 1 as Senior Bayer...
24.09.2014
- Kathleen Sereda Glaub has been appointed to Codexis' board of directors. Her 30-year career in leadership positions with drug development and technology companies is expected to...
24.09.2014
- French chemical producer Arkema has offered to acquire German adhesives manufacturer Bostik from its former parent company, oil and petrochemicals major Total. Arkema did not say...
24.09.2014
- Switzerland's Merck Serono, the biopharmaceuticals arm of Germany's Merck KGaA, and US biopharmaceuticals producer Sutro Biopharma have agreed a collaboration and license agreement...
24.09.2014
- Industries Qatar (IQ) has announced completion of a new CO2 recovery plant at its fuel additives joint venture Qafac. At the same time it has revealed that the large Al Sejeel...
23.09.2014
- GlaxoSmithkline (GSK), the UK's largest pharmaceutical producer, will pay the Chinese government nearly $500 million in fines after being found guilty of offering bribes to...
