09.02.2010
- Reuters is reporting that Abbott Laboratories is expected to win EU approval this week for its takeover of Solvay's drugs unit. Abbott announced its intention to buy out Solvay's...
08.02.2010
- Altana said it has concluded the business year 2009 with noticeably lower sales and earnings figures compared to the prior year due to the effects of the economic crisis. Despite a...
08.02.2010
- Scientists have published the first report on a new way of preventing potentially harmful plasticizers — the source of long-standing human health concerns — from migrating from one...
08.02.2010
- Generic-drug makers Teva and Actavis, backed by Swedish buyout firm EQT, have placed make-or-break bids for German peer Ratiopharm but drug major Pfizer is expected to also be a...
08.02.2010
- Bayer's chief executive reaffirmed his plan to acquire companies to strengthen the German group's healthcare division, he was quoted as saying in a newspaper interview. "It is one...
05.02.2010
- Dr. Andreas Pickuth succeeds Wolfgang Hrosch in the management at Inprocess Instruments Gesellschaft für Prozessanalytik, headquartered in Bremen,Germany. Twelve years after...
- Paliocrom Brilliant Orange L 2850 is the first of a new generation of effect pigments from BASF. Exceptional brilliance and ultra-high chroma enable the creation of novel designs...
The Dow Chemical Company - The Adhesives and Functional Polymers business unit of The Dow Chemical Company has announced the availability of its new Mor-Free L75-173/C-145 solvent-free, 100% solids...
05.02.2010
- Air Products is making an unsolicited offer of about $5.1 billion in cash for smaller rival Airgas. The offer is worth about $60 a share and would represent a 38% premium on...
05.02.2010
- U.S. crude oil futures lost further ground on Thursday, posting the biggest one-day percentage loss since July, due to a stronger dollar and weak U.S. oil demand that raised more...