04.01.2017
- Sanofi Pasteur, the global vaccines business unit of French drugmaker Sanofi, and Merck, Sharp and Dohme, international arm of US drugmaker Merck. have ended their vaccine joint...
27.12.2016
- IMCD has acquired Turkey’s Feza Kimya, boosting the Dutch specialty chemical distributor’s existing operations in the country. Financial details were not disclosed. Feza Kimya is...
27.12.2016
- Evonik is expanding capacity for its Resomer and Resomer Select biodegradable polymers in Birmingham, Alabama, USA, and Darmstadt, Germany. The move, said the German specialty...
23.12.2016
- Canadian specialty label manufacturer CCL Industries has agreed to pay 1.13 billion Canadian dollars ($839 million) for Innovia Group, the makers of the UK’s new plastic five pound...
23.12.2016
- Germany’s Evonik has announced it will build a production plant for precipitated silica at Charleston, South Carolina, USA to supply the tire industry with the product used to...
22.12.2016
- US packaging products group Avery Dennison has agreed to pay $75 million to buy Hanita Coatings, an Israeli manufacturer of pressure-sensitive materials, from Kibbutz Hanita...
22.12.2016
- In its final determination, the full International Trade Commission (ITC) has ruled that Umicore infringed the patents of BASF and Argonne National Laboratory for nickel-manganese...
21.12.2016
- US renewables company Amyris has signed an agreement with Japan’s Nikkol Group to form a cosmetic ingredients joint venture. Under the terms of the proposal, Nikkol will purchase...
21.12.2016
- US renewable materials company BioAmber and South Korea-based CJ CheilJedang Corporation (CJCJ) have signed a non-binding letter of intent (LOI) to establish a joint venture in...
20.12.2016
- As a US government criminal investigation into anticompetitive drug pricing tactics continues, federal prosecutors have charged two former pharmaceutical industry executives with...