Dutch paints and coatings specialist AkzoNobel has offered to buy Finland’s Tikkurila as it moves to top a bid by rival US firm PPG Industries.

Total has announced it is leaving the American Petroleum Institute (API) in disagreement over the industry grouping’s climate positions. The French energy and chemicals...

Major liquid crystal polymer (LCP) producer Celanese has announced plans to build a world-scale, multi-phase polymerization plant in China to support significant growth...

US president-elect Joe Biden, who will be sworn in on Jan. 20, has picked former FDA commissioner David Kessler to replace Moncef Slaoui as head of Operation Warp Speed,...

AmbioPharm, a CDMO specializing in peptide active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), has opened its new Shanghai campus, adding nearly 50,000 square meters of...

US-based CDMO Catalent has agreed to buy the powder inhaler spray drying, capsule manufacturing and packaging operations of Acorda Therapeutics, a biotech specializing in...

Dutch chemical producer Nouryon has rebranded its wholly-owned industrial chemicals business as Nobian. The company said the change will allow the subsidiary to develop...

Marching to the tune of the groundswell generated by Western Covid-19 vaccines approved, distributed and administered in the US, UK and the EU in recent weeks, Chinese...

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Baxter BioPharma Solutions has contracted to support production of US biotech Novavax’s new Covid-19 vaccine in Germany, when it is approved. Phase 3 data from late...