19.06.2020
- Pressed for production resources due to its effort to develop a vaccine to prevent Covid-19, Sanofi said it will build a new vaccine manufacturing facility at Neuville sur Saône...
18.06.2020
- Circular Economy is driving new and tougher problems for the industry to solve faster than ever before. From dealing with waste, to developing sustainable alternatives to...
18.06.2020
- Invista Nylon Chemicals (China) has broken ground on its 400,000 t/y adiponitrile (ADN) plant being built at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park (SCIP). The company is investing...
18.06.2020
- Dow and Shell are working together to accelerate the development of technology to electrify ethylene steam crackers. These currently rely on fossil fuel combustion to heat their...
18.06.2020
- The newest potential “miracle” treatment for Covid-19 to be touted won praise for its performance in a clinical study carried out by the University of Oxford. The university said...
17.06.2020
- The German federal government is taking a 23.1% stake, worth €300 million, in privately owned biotech CureVac. It’s an unusual move for Berlin, but economics minister Peter...
With effect from May 1, 2020 the executive committee of the Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium-based Minafin Group has appointed Bernhard Müller as Managing Director of its...
16.06.2020
- US-based polyamide 6,6 producer Ascend Performance Materials has signed an agreement to buy the assets of NCM (Changshu) Co. and Tehe Engineering Plastic (Suzhou) Co., marking its...
16.06.2020
- DSM has agreed to buy Austria’s Erber Group, comprising Biomin and Romer Labs, for an enterprise value of €980 million. Two smaller business units – Sanphar and EFB, which...
16.06.2020
- The hydroxychlorquine saga refuses to end, but the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has moved to end its role in the discussion, apparently at the request of the national...
