14.10.2019
- BASF’s planned exit from the construction chemicals sector may take longer than expected, reports from the market suggest. In the latest setback, sources speaking to the Bloomberg...
11.10.2019
- Ineos Styrolution and Austrian recycler Bage Plastics have agreed to cooperate on producing high-end ABS grades with up to 70% recycled content. Under the deal, the Germany-based...
11.10.2019
- French contract development and manufacturing organization Delpharm has announced it is in exclusive talks to buy five production sites from financially struggling Greek competitor...
11.10.2019
- French tire manufacturer Michelin and partners IFP Energies Nouvelles (IFPEN) and Axens have announced plans to build the first industrial-scale prototype of a plant producing...
10.10.2019
- A jury in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has ordered US healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J) to pay $8 billion in punitive damages to a man who claims the company’s anti-psychotic...
10.10.2019
- BASF is taking a stake worth €20 million in Quantafuel, a Norwegian firm specialized in pyrolysis of mixed plastic waste and purification of pyrolysis oil. The transaction will be...
09.10.2019
- French chemicals and plastics producer Arkema has started up a new €20 million production line for ultra-high-performance polyamide 12 powders at its site in Mont, France in the...
German biopharmaceuticals contract development and manufacturing organization Rentschler Biopharma is extending and deepening its existing collaboration in Japan with...
08.10.2019
- Germany’s Merck KGaA has completed its € 5.8 billion acquisition of US-based Versum Materials. The Darmstadt-headquartered pharmaceuticals and chemicals producer said the buy makes...
07.10.2019
- As Brexit nears, concern is rising in the UK over Ineos’ proposal to close its 280,000 t/y acrylonitrile plant at Seal Sands on Teesside in northeast England. The Swiss...