03.04.2019
- In a move to accelerate the development of its oncology franchise, AstraZeneca has agreed a $6.9 billion deal with Japanese pharma major Daiichi Sankyo to share rights to a new...
03.04.2019
- Swiss drugmaker Novartis has agreed to buy US biotech IFM Tre in a deal worth nearly $1.6 billion, boosting its portfolio of anti-inflammatory medicines. Novartis will pay $310...
02.04.2019
- Irkutsk Polymer, a wholly owned subsidiary of one of Russia’s largest independent oil and gas producers, has chosen Univation Technologies’ Unipol PE technology for a new plant it...
02.04.2019
- Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has signed memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with two petrochemical industry majors, OMV and Borealis – both based in Vienna, Austria – to...
02.04.2019
- Activist investor Starboard Value has backed away from plans to torpedo the proposed $74 billion merger of Bristol-Myers Squibb with Celgene after independent proxy advisory firms...
01.04.2019
- A new report, published by the International Council of Chemical Associations (ICCA) and based on a study by Oxford Economics, provides a detailed assessment of the chemical...
01.04.2019
- Just two weeks after Safic-Alcan acquired 100% of UK distributor Langley-Smith the Paris, France-based specialty chemicals distributor announced that it has taken 100% of Luigi and...
31.03.2019
- Nouryon has announced plans to double production capacity for solvent-based organic peroxides at its Los Reyes site in Mexico. The company said the project is in support of the...
31.03.2019
- The county attorney of Harris County in Texas, Vince Ryan, has sued Intercontinental Terminals Company (ITC) over the multi-day blaze at its storage facility in the Deer Park...
31.03.2019
- US science services company Thermo Fisher Scientific has agreed to buy Brammer Bio for around $1.7 billion, the latest in a spate of gene therapy acquisitions this year by major...
