10.11.2010
- Chevron will buy U.S. natural gas producer Atlas Energy for $3.2 billion, excluding debt, giving the oil company a key stake in the fast-growing Marcellus shale field. The...
10.11.2010
- French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis said it has called on bid target Genzyme not to use defensive tactics to block a takeover of the U.S. biotech but to let shareholders decide on its...
10.11.2010
- Ashland said it would sell its distribution business to a unit of private equity firm TPG for $930 million, as it shifts focus to higher-margin specialty chemicals. Ashland has...
10.11.2010
- Singapore aims to raise the competitiveness of its chemical industry by further developing Jurong Island, the 32 square km (12.4 sq mile) offshore hub, home to 96 petroleum...
08.11.2010
- A former Bristol-Myers Squibb employee pleaded guilty on Friday to stealing trade secrets from the drug manufacturer so he could set up his own business in India, the U.S. Justice...
08.11.2010
- Saskatchewan's securities watchdog agreed on Thursday to BHP Billiton's request to adjourn indefinitely a Nov. 8-9 hearing on Potash Corp's shareholder rights plan. The...
08.11.2010
- South Korean petrochemical makers are racing to upgrade their naphtha cracking facilities to cash in on resurgent demand for plastics in Asia, led by China, after its worst slump...
04.11.2010
- The U.S. Patent and Trademark's Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences has reconfirmed Hovione's patent claims to a method of making flumethasone and its 17-carboxyl androsten...
Celanese - Celanese has announced that its subsidiary, Celanese EVA Performance Polymers, has launched VitalDose, a polymer-based excipient that facilitates drug makers' efforts to develop...
04.11.2010
- Dow Corning's board of directors elected Robert D. Hansen, president of Dow Corning Corporation, effective immediately. Stephanie A. Burns remains chairman and CEO. Hansen has been...
