20.01.2020
- London-headquartered Synthomer has received conditional clearance from the European Commission to acquire Omnova Solutions, a US specialty chemicals and additives manufacturer...
20.01.2020
- Bayer has run into difficulty with healthcare providers in England and Germany over the high cost of the German group’s new “tissue-agnostic” cancer drug Vitrakvi, which was...
17.01.2020
- Dutch renewables company Avantium has appointed Bart Welten as chief financial officer (CFO), effective January 2020. Welten has 30 years of experience in finance and extensive...
17.01.2020
- According to the Japanese Chemical Substances Control Law, all new chemical substances must be notified by manufacturers/importers and evaluated by the authorities (Ministry of...
17.01.2020
- Japanese drugmaker Takeda is facing a large tax bill from Ireland as an uncalculated repercussion of its acquisition of US-managed, Ireland-domiciled Shire at the end of 2018. Tax...
17.01.2020
- Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Pertamina and Chandra Asri to study the potential development of a crude-to...
17.01.2020
- German specialty chemicals company Evonik has agreed to buy Wilshire Technologies, a US-based supplier of phytochemicals and derivatives to the global cosmetic and pharmaceutical...
16.01.2020
- UK high-performance polymer producer Victrex has formed a joint venture with China’s Yingkou Xingfu Chemical to build and operate a new plant for polyether ether ketone (PEEK)...
16.01.2020
- German specialty chemicals producer Lanxess has completed the sale of its chrome chemicals business to Brother Enterprises, a Chinese leather chemicals producer. The closing...
16.01.2020
- An explosion and fire at an ethylene oxide (EO) and derivatives plant owned and operated by petrochemicals producer Industrias Químicas del Óxido de Etileno (IQOXE) at Tarragona...
