28.10.2019
- Swiss agrochemicals giant Syngenta, part of ChemChina, has announced it will spend $2 billion over the next five years to help farmers tackle the threats posed by climate change...
28.10.2019
- Major US contractor McDermott International has been awarded a “large” contract (worth between $50 million and $250 million) for Aramco and Total’s joint-venture Amiral...
25.10.2019
- An affiliate of One Rock Capital Partners – a middle-market private equity firm based in New York, USA – has agreed to acquire Innophos Holdings for approximately $932 million...
25.10.2019
- Another US opioid maker has moved to settle charges against it out of court. Reckitt Benckiser will pay $700 million to settle six states' claims that its former Indivior business...
25.10.2019
- Novartis has informed workers that it plans to close some operations in Ireland with the potential loss of 320 jobs. The Swiss drugs giant will close an API unit and a global...
24.10.2019
- US-based specialty chemicals and ingredients distributor Maroon Group has acquired Canadian company Cambrian Solutions in a move it said significantly extends its North American...
24.10.2019
- The Fire Retardant Additives (FRA) division of Huber Engineered Materials, part of J.M. Huber Corp., has announced that its second-phase expansion of fine precipitated hydrate...
24.10.2019
- The EU is tightening the screws on neonicotinoid-based pesticides (neonics), extending its restrictions on outdoor use of three crop protectants suspected of harming bees to...
23.10.2019
- GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is selling its travel vaccines Rabipur and Encepur to Danish biotech Bavarian Nordic. The vaccines were acquired from Novartis in 2015. Rabipur is for...
23.10.2019
- Lanxess has completed the initial phase of a project to accelerate development of custom-made formulations. In the early phase, it has been able to manufacture prepolymers with the...