27.08.2014
- Led by the company's largest shareholder, Bill Ackman, investors owning 31% of Botox manufacturer Allergan have called for a special shareholder meeting. Ackman's investment...
27.08.2014
- Bayer MaterialScience (BMS) is partnering with Shanghai Chlor-Alkali Chemical (SCAC) to reuse salt water from BMS' polycarbonate production at Shanghai. In the project, the salt...
26.08.2014
- The UK's Labour party has said it want to strengthen regulation of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. It planned to introduce a series of amendments to the infrastructure bill...
25.08.2014
- DuPont has sued SunEdison for patent infringement, accusing the solar array developer of contracting with suppliers and manufacturers that infringed on proprietary technology. The...
25.08.2014
- Germany's economics ministry has given the go-ahead for energy group RWE to sell its oil and gas unit DEA to a group of investors led by Russian tycoon Mikhail Fridman. A clause in...
25.08.2014
- Roche Holding has agreed to buy US biotech company InterMune for $8.3 billion in cash, marking the latest multibillion-dollar deal in a consolidating pharmaceutical sector. The...
22.08.2014
- As predicted by market watchers, Shell has revealed plans to sell off some of its portfolio of natural gas holdings to focus on the Marcellus and Utica shale formations in the...
22.08.2014
- Lanxess' High Performance Elastomers business unit has transferred its distribution business in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to Krahn Chemie Polska based in Poland. The...
22.08.2014
- Japan's Mitsui has agreed to acquire global business operations for DuPont's copper fungicide Kocide. Mitsui's US subsidiary will establish a local company to buy the business...
21.08.2014
- Dutch chemical producer AkzoNobel has broken ground on its new decorative paints site at Chengdu, the capital city of China's Sichuan Province. The new facility is part of an...