17.09.2019
- Purdue Pharma, the drugmaker under fire for triggering an opioid crisis in the US, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a New York court after reaching a tentative...
15.09.2019
- CPS Performance Chemicals, a portfolio company of private equity firm Arsenal Capital Partners, has acquired GEO Specialty Chemicals for an undisclosed sum. Headquartered in Ambler...
10.09.2019
- Under fire for its allegedly irresponsible approach to opioid marketing, Oxycontin manufacturer Purdue Pharma is preparing to declare bankruptcy as per the end of September. The...
09.09.2019
- Rare functional sugars provide huge market opportunities. The German company Jennewein Biotechnologie, headquarterd in Rheinbreitbach near Bonn, specializes in in the industrial...
09.09.2019
- Peptides make up around 8% of all active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). Those molecules are short polymers formed from the linking of ≤100 amino acids. They comprise some of...
08.09.2019
- Saudi Arabia’s energy minister Khalid al-Falih has been removed as chairman of the country’s flagship company Saudi Aramco, which is also the world’s largest oil company. The move...
30.08.2019
- Plastics additives and colorants manufacturer Milliken plans to build a new state-of-the-art manufacturing plant for its plastics additives, coupled with a knowledge center, in...
19.08.2019
- Mönchengladbach, Germany-headquartered Oqema group acquired Irish chemical distributor and manufacturer Rocara. With operations in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Dublin, Republic...
12.08.2019
- As the number of lawsuits from people claiming that Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide caused their cancer mount – to currently more than 18,000 –signals increasingly point to an out-of...
