02.11.2017
- A court in the US state of California has reversed a verdict against drugmaker Johnson & Johnson in the ongoing litigation over whether the company’s talc productions can be linked...
27.09.2017
- By applying a deeper understanding of diseases with richer patient data and advanced analytics, precision medicine can help physicians tailor medicines to the needs of individual...
08.09.2017
- When the UK joined the European Economic Community (EEC) on 1 January 1973, nobody could imagine that quite exactly 40 years later, in January 2013, then Prime Minister David...
31.08.2017
- Two explosions apparently hit an Arkema plant in Crosby, Texas, producing liquid organic peroxides in the early morning hours of Aug. 31. The French group’s US subsidiary and local...
17.08.2017
- The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which is reviewing the planned merger of Swiss specialty chemicals producer Clariant with US peer Huntsman, has sent the companies a request...
14.08.2017
- AkzoNobel has won a second court case against US activist investor Elliott Advisors. An Amsterdam district court ruled on Aug. 10 that the coatings producer does not have to call a...
02.08.2017
- Swiss specialty chemicals producer Clariant has hired US investment bank Goldman Sachs as an additional advisor to fend off a campaign by activist investor White Tale to stop the...
28.07.2017
- Clariant may be willing to divest 25% of its portfolio, including its Pigments and Masterbatches businesses, following the planned $20 billion merger with US family-owned chemical...
05.07.2017
- Activist investors unhappy with the merger plans of Clariant and Huntsman have joined forces to torpedo it. The Corvex hedge fund of Keith Meister – a protégé of billionaire...
28.06.2017
- The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) has suspended Astellas UK’s membership for a further 12 months from Jun. 24 because of several serious breaches of its...
