06.11.2013
- Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche has received the green light from the U.S. Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA) to sell Gazyva (obinutuzumab), its new agent to treat chronic...
06.11.2013
- Ineos is said to be in the process of restarting its gas-fed cracker at Grangemouth, Scotland. All facilities at the site were put on "cold standby" on October 15 at the height of...
06.11.2013
- The disposal of assets belonging to insolvent Spanish PET producer has been approved by the Barcelona commercial court handling the proceedings. Authorities have now given the...
05.11.2013
- Plans for a merger between Saudi International Petrochemical Company (Sipchem) and Sahara Petrochemical are at an advanced stage, the two Saudi Arabian chemical producers said...
05.11.2013
- Celanese will begin consultations with employees about closing two acetyl intermediates facilities in France and Spain after failing to find a buyer that would continue production...
05.11.2013
- With three quarters of 2013 behind it, Germany's Bayer group sees itself as still on track to fulfil the "ambitious forecast" for 2013 voiced by CEO Marijn Dekkers earlier this...
31.10.2013
- Trial And Error - Despite a 150-year history and an aggregate R&D expenditure of $150 billion per year, innovation in the modern pharmaceutical industry is essentially still based...
31.10.2013
- Bio-Based Building Blocks - The need to reduce dependency on fossil resources, a growing world population and an increased concern for the environment are driving companies to...
30.10.2013
- Dow Chemical is hanging the "for sale" sign on additional links in its value chain, raising the sum of assets it plans to divest over the next few months from $1.5 billion to $3-4...
30.10.2013
- DuPont has announced that it will spin off its $7 billion Performance Chemicals division, including the titanium dioxide and the chemicals and fluoroproducts businesses, to...
