08.04.2014
- Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, U.S. subsidiary of the Israeli generics drugmaker, has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stop a lower court ruling from going into effect while the...
08.04.2014
- Chevron Phillips Chemical (CP Chem) has held groundbreaking ceremonies for the new 1.5 m t/y ethane cracker to be built at its Cedar Bayou site near Baytown, Texas. The cracker...
08.04.2014
- Silicone and quartz producer Momentive Performance Materials (MPM) is said to be close to filing for U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as the company belonging to private...
07.04.2014
- French PVC producer Kem One, the former Arkema subsidiary recently rescued from bankruptcy by private equity investor OpenGate Capital and industrialist Alain de Krassny, has begun...
07.04.2014
- Swedish generic drugmaker Meda has rejected a takeover approach by U.S. rival Mylan to create a combined company worth around $24 billion. Reports said Mylan was exploring a bid at...
07.04.2014
- U.S. lawmakers of the Republican party have charged that over regulation has prevented a shale oil boom in California and that easing the rules could boost production in the state...
07.04.2014
- Merck Serono, the Swiss-based biopharmaceutical division of Germany's Merck KGaA, has signed an exclusive license agreement with U.S. reproductive medicine specialist Auxogyn of...
04.04.2014
- Linde Canada, subsidiary of the German gases and engineering group, has acquired shares in two Canadian companies, Oxygene Sorel-Tracy (OST) and Soudure Industrielle du Richlieu...
04.04.2014
- Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis has replaced the top managers at its Japanese unit after a third-party probe found employees had acted questionably in clinical trials on a...
04.04.2014
- BASF Corporation, U.S. arm of the global chemical producer, has established a multidisciplinary research institute, the California Research Alliance by BASF (CARA), with a focus on...
