A Danish group, comprising catalyst and technology company Haldor Topsoe, sustainable energy company Vestas and renewable energy developer Skovgaard Invest, plans to...
France’s Arkema has announced plans to sell its PMMA engineering plastic arm to Trinseo of the US for an enterprise value of €1,137 million, slightly more than nine times...
German biotech CureVac has started a Phase 2b/3 clinical trial of its Covid-19 vaccine candidate CVnCoV. Planned to enroll 36,500 participants in Europe and Latin America...
Japan’s Mitsubishi Chemical has acquired a greenfield site on the Mississippi River in Geismar, Louisiana, USA, for its proposed 350,000 t/y methyl methacrylate (MMA)...
Undeterred by the rejection of its two previous offers, Minerals Technologies submitted a revised and third proposal on Dec. 4 to take over UK specialty chemicals company...
The US Food and Drug Administration on Dec. 11 awarded an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccine. The green light followed...
UK technology company Johnson Matthey (JM) has won a contract to supply multiple licenses to China’s Ningxia Baofeng Energy to develop five of the largest single-train...
Germany’s Wacker Chemie is selling its remaining 30.8% stake in semiconductor specialist Siltronic to GlobalWafers. As part of the transaction, which is subject to...
French specialty chemicals producer Arkema has acquired Colorado Photopolymer Solutions. Based in Boulder, Colorado. The US company develops and markets a range of value...
Danish paints group Flügger has entered into an agreement to take a 70% stake in Eskaro Group, a Swedish-headquartered paint and varnish producer with operations in...