28.10.2014
- The European chemical industry has reduced its forecast growth in chemicals output in 2014 in the face of evidence of an economic slowdown both in Europe and in the world's fast...
28.10.2014
- Police in Ludwigshafen, Germany, are continuing to investigate the cause of a deadly gas explosion near BASF's main production site at Ludwigshafen that killed a construction...
27.10.2014
- GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the UK's largest pharmaceutical producer, said development of the company's experimental Ebola vaccine candidate is progressing "at an unprecedented rate,"...
24.10.2014
- Dow Chemical continues to benefit from its low-cost positions and geographic diversification, CEO Andrew Liveris said in presenting earnings figures for the third quarter of 2014...
22.10.2014
- Ashland said it has reached a "definitive agreement" to sell its Port Neches, Texas-based elastomers business to Lion Copolymer for an undisclosed sum. The deal is expected to...
21.10.2014
- Christophe de Margerie, chairman and CEO of French oil and petrochemicals giant Total, has been killed in a Russian aviation accident. Reports from Moscow said de Margerie, 63, was...
21.10.2014
- Specialty chemicals company Platform Specialty Products Corp has signed a "definitive agreement" to buy rival Arysta LifeScience for about $3.51 billion from an unnamed company...
20.10.2014
- The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineers (ISPE) announced Pfizer Ireland Pharmaceuticals as the 2014 Facility of the Year Awards (FOYA) Overall Winner. Pfizer Ireland...
20.10.2014
- A Chinese drugmaker with military ties has sent an experimental Ebola drug to Africa for use by Chinese aid workers and is planning clinical trials there to combat the disease...
20.10.2014
- Mizushima Aroma Co, a joint venture of Mitsubishi Gas Chemical and Toyobo, both of Japan, plans to phase out its 260,000 t/y production of polyester feedstock PTA by the end of the...
