29.05.2020
- Spanish energy and chemicals group Cepsa is restructuring its operations into five business units: exploration & production (E&P); refining; chemicals; sales; and trading, gas &...
29.05.2020
- A more or less global consensus now appears to have been reached that the 86-year-old malaria drug chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine is not an effective treatment for Covid-19...
28.05.2020
- US generic pharma producer Akorn has filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11. The company had said in February that it could potentially use Chapter 11 to address...
28.05.2020
- Evonik has commissioned a new advanced biomaterials facility at its Birmingham, Alabama, US site, designed to support increasing global market demand for bioresorbable polymers...
28.05.2020
- US pharma giant Merck & Co is wading into the race to find a vaccine or treatment for Covid-19. The New Jersey-based company is joining forces with nonprofit research group IAVI on...
27.05.2020
- Procter & Gamble (P&G) has granted Cargill an exclusive license that allows the US agribusiness group to further develop and commercialize its bio-based acrylic acid process. The...
27.05.2020
- Gilead Sciences has tapped five generic drugmakers as partners to further expand supplies of remdesivir, its drug now being trialed in the US as a Covid-19 treatment. Non-exclusive...
27.05.2020
- Equinor, Shell and Total have decided to invest in Norway’s Northern Lights CO2 storage project. Initial investments will total almost 6.9 million Norwegian kroner, or just under...
26.05.2020
- US industrial gases producer Air Products has extended the term of its chairman, president and chief executive officer, Seifi Ghasemi, through September 30, 2025. Ghasemi was first...
26.05.2020
- Huntsman has completed its $300 million acquisition of North American specialty chemicals company CVC Thermoset Specialties. CVC makes a range of highly specialized toughening...
