13.03.2017
- US healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has announced plans to close its surgical suture manufacturing plant in Livingston, Scotland, with the potential loss of 400 jobs...
13.03.2017
- After acquiring the remaining stake in Bamboo Therapeutics, a privately held gene therapy group based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, last year in a drive to be a major player...
13.03.2017
- PMC Biogenix, a developer and manufacturer of specialty chemicals from renewable resources, has expanded capacity for long chain fatty acid intermediates in Memphis, Tennessee, USA...
10.03.2017
- All in one day, Dutch coatings specialist AkzoNobel revealed on Mar. 9 that it had received an unsolicited takeover offer from US rival PPG and was looking at spinning off its...
09.03.2017
- Canada’s SNC-Lavalin has won an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract from Salalah Methanol Company (SMC) for an anhydrous liquid ammonia plant, including...
09.03.2017
- DSM Nutritional Products and Evonik Nutrition & Care, subsidiaries of the well-known Dutch and German chemical producers, have announced they will establish a 50:50 joint venture...
08.03.2017
- POET-DSM Advanced Biofuels, a 50:50 joint venture between Dutch chemical producer DSM and major ethanol producer POET, will build an enzyme manufacturing plant in Emmetsburg, Iowa...
07.03.2017
- Chinese life sciences company Lianhe Chemical Technology (Lianhetech) has gained its first base in Europe after agreeing to buy UK-based chemical manufacturer Fine Industries in a...
07.03.2017
- Regulators in the EU and the US have signed a transatlantic agreement to recognize inspections of manufacturing sites for human medicines carried out in their respective countries...
07.03.2017
- Specialty chemicals supplier Perstorp has announced it will sell its additives business aimed primarily at the paints and coatings industry to Synthomer for around €78 million. The...