19.06.2014
- Canada's Valeant Pharmaceuticals is taking its hostile $50.8 billion bid to acquire Botox manufacturer Allergan directly to shareholders. Backed by activist shareholder Bill Ackman...
18.06.2014
- Akzo Nobel has appointed Maëlys Castella as the company's chief financial officer, with effect from Sept. 15, 2014. She will be the first female CFO at one of the 25 companies on...
18.06.2014
- Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings and Mitsui plan to form a joint venture to produce methyl methacrylate (MMA) in the US from shale gas-derived feedstocks, Japanese reports say. In a...
18.06.2014
- Kaiser Permanente, the largest US health care provider, has announced it will stop buying furniture treated with chemical flame retardants that have been linked to cancer and brain...
18.06.2014
- Butadiene shortages loom as plastics manufacturers switch their feedstock to less expensive light feed. Estimates suggest it could be as little as 7% over the next decade if only...
17.06.2014
- In a submission to the Carr review, a commission set up by the UK government in April to look at the laws governing industrial disputes, Ineos has proposed unlimited civil...
17.06.2014
- German chemical and pharmaceutical producer Merck has agreed to sell the laboratory equipment and production units of Chemische Fabrik Lehrte to compatriot Schüssler Novachem, a...
17.06.2014
- US industrial gases producer Air Products and Matheson Tri-Gas, a member of the Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation (TNSC) group, have begun filling and shipping of the first two 11,000...
17.06.2014
- Germany's Economy Ministry is investigating whether to block the sale of RWE's oil and gas unit DEA to a group of investors led by Russian tycoon Mikhail Fridman, according to a...
16.06.2014
- BioConsortia, a newly formed parent company of BioDiscovery New Zealand, based in Davis, California, has named Marcus Meadows-Smith as its Chief Executive Officer earlier this year...
