06.03.2020
- India, the world's largest supplier of generic medicines, has restricted exports of 26 active ingredients and the drugs made from them due to the corona virus outbreak. The news...
05.03.2020
- Specialty chemicals company Nouryon and chemicals company Ineos Nitriles have broken ground on new facilities to be built at Ineos’ site in Cologne, Germany. The units are to...
05.03.2020
- German generics producer Stada is buying 15 over-the-counter (OTC) consumer healthcare brands from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), marking its second acquisition of branded products from...
05.03.2020
- In a filing with Saudi Arabia’s Taduwul stock exchange, petrochemicals giant SABIC said it has increased its shareholding in Swiss specialty chemicals producer Clariant from 24.99%...
05.03.2020
- Dutch chemicals, plastics and life sciences group DSM is increasing capacity at its US high performance materials compounding facility located at Evansville in the US state of...
04.03.2020
- Gilead Sciences has agreed to buy out immuno-oncology company Forty Seven for $4.9 billion. The deal, which has unanimous approval from both boards, is expected to close in the...
04.03.2020
- Olin has reached agreement with activist shareholder Sachem Head Capital Management and added two of the investor’s nominees to its board with immediate effect. The additional...
04.03.2020
- Advanced Biochemical (Thailand), ABT, has increased capacity for bio-based epichlorohydrin (ECH) at its plant in Map Ta Phut, Thailand by 20,000 t/y to 120,000 t/y. The company...
03.03.2020
- Water-soluble polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) film manufacturer MonoSol, a subsidiary of Japan’s Kurray, is building a new plant to produce the films at Zimna Wodka, Poland, near Katowice...
03.03.2020
- Versalis has taken a 40% stake in Finproject, an Italian manufacturer of expandable PVC compounds and molds, marking the Eni subsidiary’s entry into the high-performance formulated...
