29.01.2016
- US-based Ascend Performance Materials has ended its relationship with its largest distributor of dimethyl ester (DME) products and invested in its own marketing capability. While...
29.01.2016
- US chemicals and plastics producer Celanese continues to expand its plastics portfolio through compounding of in-sourced polymer. In its latest move, the company said it will add...
29.01.2016
- Time is money; this holds particularly true for drug research and development. The global pharmaceutical industry spends about $100 billion a year on R&D. Researchers are...
28.01.2016
- The pharmaceutical industry has often been accused of trying to keep affordable generic drugs off the market, with the addition – for example – of new indications or product...
28.01.2016
- US industrial gases giant Praxair has signed a 15-year contract to supply oxygen and nitrogen to Total in the Port of Antwerp, Belgium. Total is spending €1 billion to upgrade its...
27.01.2016
- Covestro, the former Bayer MaterialScience, is investing around €20 million in one of its downstream operations, expanding capacity for polycarbonate film at Dormagen, Germany. The...
27.01.2016
- Geneva, Switzerland-based GAVI (Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization), a public-private partnership, and Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD), known in the US as Merck & Co, have...
26.01.2016
- Switzerland’s DKSH has signed an exclusive agreement with US specialty chemicals manufacturer Hampford Research Inc (HRI). Under the agreement, DKSH will supply, market and...
26.01.2016
- South Korea’s Songwon Industrial Group has announced the start-up of its joint venture additives plant in Abu Dhabi. The 7,000 t/y facility is located in the Khalifa Industrial...
25.01.2016
- US composites producer Hexcel has announced plans to build a new €20 million production facility in Morocco to support growing demand for engineered core materials. The new...