19.03.2014
- Shanghai Chemical Industry Park Industrial Gases Company (SCIPIG), a joint venture of U.S. gases manufacturer Praxair and French partner Air Liquide, has been awarded a 15-year...
18.03.2014
- U.S. fertilizer maker CF Industries Holdings (CF) has completed the sale of its phosphate business to compatriot The Mosaic Company of Plymouth, Minnesota, for $1.4 billion. The...
18.03.2014
- Privately owned German industrial gases producer Messer acquired 100% of U.S. rival Praxair's French subsidiary Praxair S.A.S from Praxair Euroholding, Spain, effective Mar. 12...
14.03.2014
- French industrial gases producer Air Liquide has started up a new nitrogen gases plant at Tioga, North Dakota, in the U.S. The new facility will increase supply to drilling...
13.03.2014
- No potential buyers have yet come forward announcing plans to buy the chlor-alkali business Dow Chemical has said it plans to sell. However, South Korea's Hanwha Chemical said it...
12.03.2014
- DPx Holdings, the new global contract development and manufacturing joint venture of Dutch chemical producer DSM with U.S. private equity firm JLL Partners, was launched on Mar. 11...
12.03.2014
- Codexis, Inc. developer of biocatalysts for the pharmaceutical and fine chemical industries, today announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31...
10.03.2014
- In response to an application by U.S. drugmaker Eli Lilly for approval of a New Drug Application (NDA) for its type 2 diabetes treatment empagliflozin, the U.S. Food and Drug...
09.03.2014
- Competing With Generics - With product innovation falling and drugs going off patent, the generic pharmaceutical market is becoming more predominant. It is expected that generics...
07.03.2014
- AkzoNobel has doubled annual production capacity at its Industrial Coatings site in Songjiang near Shanghai, China at a cost of around €14 million. The company said the expansion...