28.11.2018
- Although global economic growth has been robust over the past two years, it remains fragile in the current changing economic and political context, according to the Global...
28.11.2018
- In an effort to move technology forward, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is overhauling the approval procedure for new medical devices. Since 1976, device manufacturers...
28.11.2018
- US-based Vantage Specialty Chemicals has agreed to buy German surfactants specialist Leuna-Tenside from two equity investors. Germany’s VR Equitypartner and Luxembourg-based BIP...
27.11.2018
- BASF Corporation is eliminating 50 jobs as it shuts operations in the environs of Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, and merges its paper wet-end and water chemicals business into US...
26.11.2018
- Swedish specialty chemicals producer Perstorp plans to sell its Perstorp BioProducts arm, a major producer of biodiesel and glycerine in Scandinavia, to a Swedish investor together...
23.11.2018
- European regulators have approved Takeda’s proposed acquisition of its US rival Shire, clearing the way for the £46 billion deal to complete. The clearance is conditional on both...
22.11.2018
- US industrial gases group Air Products has signed two production and delivery deals with Algerian government-owned energy group Sonatrach. The agreements, both of which will be...
22.11.2018
- Cambrex Corporation, which bills itself as the leading manufacturer of small molecule innovator and generic Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs), has agreed to acquire Avista...
22.11.2018
- Martin Brudermüller, CEO of BASF since May, this week unveiled a new business strategy aimed at guiding the chemical giant through expected and unexpected turbulence ahead. In a...
21.11.2018
- Swiss fertilizer group EuroChem has signed a research and development agreement with Belgian biotech Aphea.Bio. The companies will collaborate on developing next-generation...