PPG Industries has increased its offer for Tikkurila to €1.24 billion, or €27.75 per share, following the receipt of a rival bid for the Finnish paints company by an...

Moderna’s mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccine will become the second to be administered in Europe. The European Commission granted a conditional marketing authorization to the...

Through a subsidiary, Shanghai, China-based WuXi Biologics (WuXi Bio) is acquiring Bayer’s biologics substance plant at Wuppertal, Germany, for €150 million ($183.3...

Unsurprisingly in view of the surging cases of Covid-19 worldwide, there was little interruption in the flow of vaccine news – or at least talk about vaccines– during...

German-headquartered multinational chemical distributor Brenntag has agreed to buy Canada’s Alpha Chemical for an undisclosed sum.

Dutch renewables specialist Avantium has received a €5.4 million grant from the Netherlands Enterprise Agency to support expansion of the company’s furandicarboxylic acid...

Germany-based BioNTech and its Chinese partner Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical have agreed to provide an initial 100 million doses of the Mainz-headquartered company’s mRNA...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) on Dec. 21 provisionally cleared EU-wide use of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, which will be marketed under the brand name...

To support worldwide development of Covid-19 drugs and vaccines, CDMO Thermo Fisher Scientific is investing in new facilities for its cell and gene therapy portfolio in...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for US biotech Moderna’s mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccine on Dec.18, a day after the...