23.03.2020
- Evonik has agreed to buy innovativeHealth Group, a Spanish company focused on developing novel skin care products for treating dermatological diseases. The transaction is due to...
04.03.2020
- Gilead Sciences has agreed to buy out immuno-oncology company Forty Seven for $4.9 billion. The deal, which has unanimous approval from both boards, is expected to close in the...
26.02.2020
- Dutch renewables specialist Avantium has sold its bioaromatics patent portfolio to The Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, TNO, for an undisclosed sum. The...
20.02.2020
- Major US engineering contractor Fluor has been awarded contracts for projects in China and India. The first win is for work on Invista’s planned adiponitrile (ADN) plant in China...
12.02.2020
- Brenntag Food & Nutrition has opened a new site in Padua, Italy, incorporating the facilities of Chimab, a local supplier of food ingredients and semi-finished food products that...
07.02.2020
- Trying to evaluate the effect of the Corona virus on the chemical industry at this time is difficult. It would be very tempting to reply quoting Zhou Enlai, who reportedly (when...
06.02.2020
- Dow Canada has announced it is expanding its ethylene plant in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, by approximately 130,000 t/y. The company will add another furnace and associated...
24.01.2020
- US drugmaker Eli Lilly is planning to invest $474 million in a new plant in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park (RTP) that will produce injectable medicines such as insulin, as...
21.01.2020
- ESIM Chemicals is a relatively young company, though its origins date back 80 years. The provider of agrochemicals, intermediates and derivatives of maleic anhydride is...
09.01.2020
- Avantium Renewable Polymers, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dutch renewable chemistry specialist Avantium, has signed a letter of intent to build a 5,000 t/y production facility for...
