10.10.2016
- Italian bioplastics producer Novamont has started up what is said to be the world’s first commercial plant for bio-production of a major intermediate, 1,4-butanediol (BDO). The...
10.10.2016
- French energy group Total has agreed to sell its Atotech division to US-based equity firm The Carlyle Group for $3.2 billion. The move is part of the previously announced three...
10.10.2016
- Pfizer is selling its global infusion therapy business, Hospira Infusion Systems (HIS), to ICU Medical for $1 billion. The proposed merger will create a leading infusion therapy...
07.10.2016
- Israel’s Teva Pharmaceutical Industries is planning to sell the assets of Actavis Generics in the UK and Ireland to Accord Healthcare, a subsidiary of India’s Intas Pharmaceuticals...
07.10.2016
- French chemical producer Arkema is spending $15 million to build a manufacturing plant for polyester powder resins in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. The facility, which Arkema...
07.10.2016
- German drugmaker Boehringer Ingelheim is selling the pet vaccines portfolio of its US subsidiary Vetmedica to Eli Lilly’s animal health subsidiary Elanco for $885 million to allay...
05.10.2016
- US life sciences company Cambrex has completed and validated a new pilot plant at its manufacturing and R&D site in Paullo, Milan, Italy. Built to meet customer demand for small...
05.10.2016
- Following on from an agreement signed in April, US industrial bioscience company Amyris has entered another deal with the same partner to introduce a second nutraceutical product...
05.10.2016
- A new plant for vitamin A to be built by BASF at its Ludwigshafen, Germany, main site will increase production capacity by 1,500 t/y, the German group said without disclosing a...
04.10.2016
- Denver, Colorado-based gas producer Badlands NGLs is planning to build a merchant alpha olefins plant on the US Gulf Coast. A decision on the plant’s location is expected in the...