16.04.2019
- Methanex has settled a dispute with major shareholder M&G Investments, ending the prospect of a proxy fight at its upcoming annual general meeting. The Canadian methanol producer...
16.04.2019
- As the series of multi-billion-dollar buyouts among Contract Development Manufacturing Organizations (CDMOs) continues, US drug developer Catalent has announced it will acquire...
16.04.2019
- US district judge Vince Chhabria, who handled the first federal court lawsuit charging that Monsanto’s Roundup caused a California man’s cancer, has canceled the next of the 11,200...
14.04.2019
- The purchase of UK-based Holchem Group by US cleaning chemicals company Ecolab has raised competition concerns in the UK. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has been...
14.04.2019
- It has taken more than two years but Tronox has finally closed its purchase of Saudi Arabian titanium dioxide (TiO2) producer Cristal. Describing the Cristal merger as “a game...
14.04.2019
- Merck KGaA has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Versum Materials for $53 per share in cash after the plans received the green light from the German group’s executive board...
12.04.2019
- In its first deal since splitting from DuPont on Apr. 1, Dow has signed an agreement with Petronas Chemicals Glycols to collaborate on a carbon project at Petronas’s ethylene oxide...
12.04.2019
- Royal Dutch Shell has announced it is severing ties with the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) industry association over that group’s lack of support for climate...
12.04.2019
- Merck KGaA is investing €150 million in an expansion of manufacturing capacity for its biotech medicines at Aubonne, Switzerland. The expenditure will include a new building to...
11.04.2019
- Surfactants are used in a wide spectrum of applications. This broad range of use, among other things, will be at the center of interest of the 11th World Surfactants Congress to be...
