Bertrand Piccard is considered a pioneer in looking at the environment from an economic point of view and has been promoting renewable energy and clean technologies for...
US semiconductor equipment maker MKS Instruments is buying German specialty chemicals and equipment company Atotech for an enterprise value of $6.5 billion in a combined...
In the aftermath of a far-reaching mix-up of Astra Zeneca’s Covid vaccine ingredients with those of Johnson & Johnson’s shot, US CDMO Emergent BioSolutions not only has...
Companies outside the drugs and private equity sectors are increasingly striking deals to buy pharmaceutical companies. In one of the latest, cigarette manufacturer...
German specialty chemicals producer Pulcra Chemicals has acquired Belgium’s Devan for an undisclosed sum. The deal is the first in Pulcra’s history. The Geretsried...
AGC Biologics, US biopharma CDMO, has signed an agreement to buy a cell and gene therapy manufacturing facility in Longmont, Colorado, from Novartis Gene Therapies...
With an eye toward the growing electric vehicle market, BASF has announced it will build a battery recycling prototype plant at the site of its cathode active materials...
Lonza has completed the carve-out of its Specialty Ingredients business as LSI and appointed a management team led by CEO Mark Doyle, a former DuPont and DowDuPont chief...
In the chemical, petrochemical, paint & coatings and agricultural industries, process optimization is playing an increasingly important role in ensuring competitiveness.
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and India’s Reliance Industries have entered into an agreement to build a world-scale chlor-alkali, ethylene dichloride (EDC) and...
