15.09.2015
- A US court has begun hearing the first of several cases in what began as a class action suit against DuPont, in which plaintiffs claim the US chemical giant was to blame for their...
11.09.2015
- US-based Lubrizol Corporation has acquired Particle Sciences, a compatriot contract drug developer and manufacturer headquartered at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Terms of the...
11.09.2015
- Lanxess is talking to Ineos about a partnership in synthetic rubber, the news agency Reuters has said, quoting “people familiar with the matter.” Although financial terms and the...
10.09.2015
- UK drug cost-effectiveness agency National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, NICE, has approved the use of US drugmaker Merck’s Keytruda for treatment of certain cases of...
09.09.2015
- US food safety advocate group Center for Food Safety (CFS) has sued the US Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), charging that it...
08.09.2015
- Evonik Jayhawk Fine Chemicals Corporation, a US subsidiary of the German Evonik group, and Dixie Chemical Company have signed a joint development agreement for the global epoxy...
07.09.2015
- Petroineos Manufacturing Scotland, the 49.9:50.1 joint venture of Ineos and PetroChina that operates the refinery at Grangemouth, made a £16.3 million pretax loss in 2014 on sales...
04.09.2015
- Fluoropolymer system solutions are increasingly used in chemical plants for corrosion-protection tasks. They usually offer considerable advantages over alternatives such as...
04.09.2015
- The European Commission has approved the acquisition of BG Group by Royal Dutch Shell, saying it would not give Shell a dominant share in markets such as oil and gas exploration...
03.09.2015
- Swedish speciality chemicals firm Perstorp and Dutch biotechnology firm Corbion have jointly developed a new lactide caprolactone copolymer for hot melt adhesives. The fully...