16.01.2017
- Japanese companies Toray Industries and Mitsui Sugar are forming a joint venture to demonstrate the technological feasibility of manufacturing cellulosic sugar from the surplus...
13.01.2017
- Major Latin American chemical distributor GTM Holdings, majority owned by private equity firm Advent International, has agreed to buy Brazilian rival quantiQ from Braskem, creating...
13.01.2017
- American drugmakers, who had hoped US President-Elect Donald Trump would go easier on the industry than Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders had promised to do, received an...
13.01.2017
- French specialty chemicals producer Arkema is spending $90 million on upgrading technology at its Clear Lake, Texas site acrylic acid production units. When the two production...
13.01.2017
- Swiss specialty chemicals company Clariant and licensing partner KBR have provided catalysts and technology, respectively, for two major ammonia projects in Indonesia. Further...
12.01.2017
- Lonza expanded its distribution agreement with Azelis in Europe with effect from Jan. 1, 2017. The company will offer Lonza’s materials protection ingredients to industrial market...
12.01.2017
- Johnson Matthey announced the launch of its new online catalyst store which, according to the company, provides customers with easy access to research quantities of commercial...
12.01.2017
- Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings will acquire a 1,000 t/y carbon fiber plant at Evanston in the US state of Wyoming from Germany’s SGL Carbon under a deal announced this week. The...
12.01.2017
- French drugmaker Ipsen has signed a definitive agreement to buy the global oncology assets of US-based Merrimack Pharmaceuticals in a deal worth potentially more than $1 billion...
11.01.2017
- Cambrex has named Tom Vadaketh executive vice president and CFO, effective Jan. 20, 2017. Greg Sargen, current CFO at Cambrex, will transition to a newly-created role, EVP...