29.10.2013
- For a cash consideration of $315 million, U.S. specialty chemicals producer Chemtura has agreed to sell its consumer products business, including manufacturing plants in the U.S...
28.10.2013
- The European Commission has extended until Nov. 5 its deadline to decide on approval of the planned PVC joint venture of Solvay and Ineos. In May of this year, the two companies...
28.10.2013
- At the start of the year's fourth quarter, BASF is on track to match its 2012 sales and earnings figures again in 2013, despite the continued "challenging" environment and the fact...
28.10.2013
- Brazil's state-run oil company, Petrobras, said on Friday that quarterly profit fell 39% from a year ago as rising exploration and administrative costs drove up spending while fuel...
28.10.2013
- Merck Serono, the biopharmaceuticals arm of Germany's Merck KGaA, has agreed an oncology research pact with Polish biotech company Selvita. The aim of the collaboration is to...
28.10.2013
- Read the e-paper of VIP - Visions In Plastics 2013 online.EditorialsFor A Peaceful FuturePlastics Could Unlock Sustainable DevelopmentDr. Winfried Wunderlich...
28.10.2013
- Strategic Maneuvers - When Richard Ridinger took over as CEO of Basel, Switzerland-based Lonza in May 2012, the 115-year old life science and chemical company with sales of just...
28.10.2013
- Potential For Success - There is great promise for innovative R&D, generics and active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacture in Russia and the countries that make up Central...
25.10.2013
- Ineos said on Oct. 25 it would restart all production units at Grangemouth "immediately," after shuttering them on Oct. 15 at the height of its long-running dispute with the trade...
24.10.2013
- Swiss specialty chemicals producer Clariant said it has moved to take legal action against Chinese infringement of its flame retardant technology for the phosphinate substance...
