19.12.2016
- Wacker Chemie has announced it will invest around $150 million in a new pyrogenic silica plant in Charleston, Tennessee, USA. Construction work on the facility, which will have an...
19.12.2016
- Major US drugmaker Pfizer will use IBM Watson Health’s artificial intelligence technology to help in its efforts to find new cancer medicines. The deal will use the Watson for Drug...
16.12.2016
- Sadara Chemical and Rufayah Chemicals Company (RCC) have signed a long-term supply agreement under which Sadara will supply RCC with pygas and pyoil for a new complex planned for...
16.12.2016
- Lonza has clinched the mooted deal to buy Capsugel, a Morristown, New Jersey, USA-based producer of capsules for delivery of drugs and food supplements, from US private equity...
16.12.2016
- After seeing no growth in 2016, the European chemical industry council CEFIC is forecasting a “small uptick” in EU chemical production of around 0.5% in 2017, despite a “volatile...
15.12.2016
- BASF has completed its acquisition of Chemetall from US chemicals and catalyst group Albemarle. The company based at Hamm, Germany, with sales of $845 million in 2015, specializes...
14.12.2016
- At a special meeting on Dec. 13, shareholders of US agriculture giant group voted nearly unanimously to approve the proposed merger with Germany’s Bayer, assuring themselves of the...
14.12.2016
- German chemical and pharmaceutical production will increase by around 0.5% in 2017 and, with selling prices slightly higher, sales revenue will rise by about 1%, the German...
14.12.2016
- Japanese coatings company Kansai Paint has boosted its presence in Europe with the purchase of Slovenia’s Helios Coatings Group. The two companies signed a share purchase agreement...
13.12.2016
- The business of American chemistry is strong, and getting stronger, the American Chemistry Council (ACC) says in its report, Year End 2016 Chemical Industry Situation and Outlook...