02.09.2014
- As a consultant specializing in the chemical industry in China, I often get asked for attractive areas in the industry - mostly by companies looking to expand their business. I am...
02.09.2014
- As a result of recent changes to regulations, the requirements for the import of chemical products into China have become more stringent and more complex. In contrast to the...
02.09.2014
- The role of chemical distribution is often reduced to sourcing, storing, repackaging and supplying chemicals. However, many chemical distributors - such as Brenntag - offer much...
01.09.2014
- German neurologists are standing by currently prescribed interferon-based multiple sclerosis treatments, despite a warning issued by the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical...
29.08.2014
- Two Swedish drugmakers, Recipharm and Isofol Medical, have agreed to collaborate to strengthen the development program of Isofol's lead drug candidate Modufolin, an endogenous...
29.08.2014
- An experimental Ebola vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline is being fast-tracked into clinical trials with human patients, and the company plans to immediately begin building a stockpile...
28.08.2014
- BASF has started up a new plant for concrete admixtures at Mlolongo, Kenya. The facility for which no capacity has been named supplies chemical solutions for new construction...
27.08.2014
- Bayer MaterialScience (BMS) is partnering with Shanghai Chlor-Alkali Chemical (SCAC) to reuse salt water from BMS' polycarbonate production at Shanghai. In the project, the salt...
25.08.2014
- Germany's economics ministry has given the go-ahead for energy group RWE to sell its oil and gas unit DEA to a group of investors led by Russian tycoon Mikhail Fridman. A clause in...
22.08.2014
- Japan's Mitsui has agreed to acquire global business operations for DuPont's copper fungicide Kocide. Mitsui's US subsidiary will establish a local company to buy the business...