06.02.2019
- The chemical industry is a highly international sector with activity dominated by cross border transactions. Chinese and other Asian firms have been particularly busy expanding...
06.02.2019
- Ecolab has announced its intention to spin off its upstream energy businesses into a standalone, public company. The businesses, which have annual sales of around $2.4 billion...
06.02.2019
- Janssen, the pharmaceuticals arm of Johnson & Johnson, is once again collaborating with US clinical-stage gene therapy company MeiraGTx to develop and commercialize treatments for...
06.02.2019
- German and British drugmakers Merck KGaA and Glaxo SmoithKline have entered a global strategic alliance to jointly develop and commercialize M7824 (bintrafusp alfa), the German...
05.02.2019
- Canada Kuwait Petrochemical Corp. (CKPC), a joint venture between Canada’s Pembina Pipeline and Kuwait’s Petrochemical Industries Co. (PIC), has given a positive final investment...
05.02.2019
- As had been expected, the multi-billion dollar thrust by Ineos to buy North Sea oil fields from ConocoPhillips has run aground on price uncertainties. The US energy major has now...
05.02.2019
- The proposed $74 billion takeover of US biotech Celgene by compatriot BristolMyers Squibb (BMS), announced last month, may be looking somewhat shaky. Analysts and investors up to...
04.02.2019
- At the beginning of this year, prospects are bright for operators across the oil and gas and chemical sectors. The push towards digital transformation and the ongoing advance of...
03.02.2019
- US clean technology company Gevo has developed a catalytic process that converts waste alcohols into renewable isoprene. The company Gevo expects the isoprene produced by its...
03.02.2019
- Japan’s Hitachi Chemical is buying Apceth Biopharma, a German contract manufacturer of complex cell-based and gene-therapy products, for €75.5 million. The acquisition is expected...
