16.09.2014
- Lanxess has dropped plans to sell its rubber accelerator and anti-oxidant businesses as announced earlier. Instead the business with the chemicals used to vulcanize rubber is to be...
16.09.2014
- Roche's cancer drug Avastin as a cheaper treatment for wet age-related macular degeneration (wAMD), a leading cause of blindness in the elderly, does not appear to increase deaths...
16.09.2014
- The European Commission has cleared Huntsman's proposed acquisition of a number of Rockwood's chemical businesses in exchange for Huntsman's promise to divest its TR52 portfolio...
16.09.2014
- A joint research team of BASF, Cargill and Novozymes, at work since August 2012 to develop a process for the conversion of renewable raw materials into bio-based acrylic acid, said...
15.09.2014
- Saudi Arabian petrochemical giant SABIC has signed a five-year strategic R&D partnership agreement with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the leading public research and...
15.09.2014
- Germany's federal environment ministry, as expected, has announced a planned moratorium on commercial hydraulic fracturing, or fracking above 3,000 meters depth until "at least"...
15.09.2014
- Bayer HealthCare has completed the sale of its interventional device business to Boston Scientific for $ 415 million. The German company said the divestment will allow its medical...
15.09.2014
- Major US chemical producer Eastman has agreed to acquire compatriot Taminco, a major producer of alklylamines and alkylamine derivatives, for $2.8 billion. The deal proposed to be...
12.09.2014
- Calico, an investment firm founded by Google to fund projects aimed at delaying the human aging process, is partnering with US drugmaker AbbVie to develop therapies for age-related...
12.09.2014
- German gases and engineering group Linde has been tapped to provide engineering and procurement services for a 2.1 million t/y natural gas liquefaction plant for Canada's Woodfibre...
