01.06.2020
- Clariant has announced plans to expand capacity for its Hostapon range of sodium cocoyl isethionate (SCI) mild surfactants in Europe and USA. Production in Tarragona, Spain, and...
29.05.2020
- In recent decades, outsourcing of production steps, especially to Asia, has been one of the most important trends in manufacturing strategies in both the European and the US...
29.05.2020
- US engineering and construction company KBR has signed an agreement with NIPIneftegas to set up a joint venture in Kazakhstan. The companies did not disclose the size of their...
29.05.2020
- A more or less global consensus now appears to have been reached that the 86-year-old malaria drug chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine is not an effective treatment for Covid-19...
28.05.2020
- Evonik has commissioned a new advanced biomaterials facility at its Birmingham, Alabama, US site, designed to support increasing global market demand for bioresorbable polymers...
27.05.2020
- Gilead Sciences has tapped five generic drugmakers as partners to further expand supplies of remdesivir, its drug now being trialed in the US as a Covid-19 treatment. Non-exclusive...
27.05.2020
- Equinor, Shell and Total have decided to invest in Norway’s Northern Lights CO2 storage project. Initial investments will total almost 6.9 million Norwegian kroner, or just under...
25.05.2020
- Leading titanium dioxide (TiO2) producer Tronox has agreed to buy the TiZir Titanium and Iron (TTI) business from Eramet, a French multinational mining and metallurgy group, for...
25.05.2020
- Kemira will expand capacity in Uruguay for bleaching chemicals sodium chlorate and hydrogen peroxide to support a new long-term supply agreement with Finnish forest industry...
25.05.2020
- GlaxoSmithKline has agreed an eight-year, $231 million, pact with South Korean CDMO Samsung Biologics to scale up manufacturing of biologics. The capacity Samsung provides will be...
