16.02.2011
- Air Products & Chemicals Inc ended its year-long battle for Airgas Inc after a Delaware judge upheld Airgas's use of a "poison pill" defense against a $5.9 billion hostile bid by...
16.02.2011
- Sanofi-Aventis SA has agreed in principle to acquire Genzyme Corp for $19.2 billion in cash plus future payments based on the performance of an experimental Genzyme drug, according...
16.02.2011
- Clariant looks set to beat out remaining rival Mitsui Chemicals in the bidding for Germany's Sued-Chemie and a deal could be struck within days, three people familiar with the...
16.02.2011
- China's Sinochem will immediately raise the volume of its fertiliser imports from Moroccan state-run phosphate producer OCP under a deal that could also pave the way to joint...
14.02.2011
- A contract on behalf of Ticona (part of the global Celanese Corporation) which specializes in solutions that use advanced polymer technology to produce high performance plastic...
14.02.2011
- Dutch bioscience company Pantarhei intends to bid for the bulk of U.S. company Merck's Netherlands-based bioscience research unit Organon, the Dutch Financieele Dagblad reported on...
14.02.2011
- Sanofi-Aventis, the French drugmaker whose $18.5 billion bid for U.S. biotech Genzyme expires on Tuesday, is studying four acquisitions in the ophthalmology sector, Les Echos...
14.02.2011
- India's markets regulator may impose penalty of up to 15 billion rupees ($328 million) on Reliance Industries if it establishes the energy major was involved in insider trading...
14.02.2011
- Fertiliser and specialty chemicals maker Israel Chemicals said on Sunday it had signed contracts with several customers in China to supply a total of 500,000 tonnes of potash in...
14.02.2011
- Genzyme Corp investors' confidence that the U.S. biotech is close to an agreement to be taken over by Sanofi-Aventis could be shaken if the French drugmaker extends its tender...
