21.09.2012
- The role of the U.S. pharmaceutical industry within Medicare should be expanded as a way to reduce the popular healthcare program's contribution to the federal deficit without...
20.09.2012
- BASF, the world's largest chemicals maker, is to buy U.S. crop protection company Becker Underwood from buyout firm Norwest Equity Partners for $1.02 billion to boost its farming...
19.09.2012
- Lanxess has announced a new mid-term goal for its leading earnings indicator - EBITDA pre exceptionals - of EUR 1.8 billion in 2018. The German specialty chemicals company is...
19.09.2012
- Clariant, a producer of fabric repellency treatments, has increased its capacity to produce next-generation fluorochemicals at its plant in Gendorf, Germany. With an investment of...
18.09.2012
- With a renewed focus on specialty chemicals and innovation, Arkema, a global chemical company and France's leading chemicals producer, now enters into a new phase in its...
18.09.2012
- As the second largest consumer of synthetic latex polymers in the world after North America, the combined states of the EU-27 consumed nearly 2.5 million dry tons of synthetic...
16.09.2012
- Johnson & Johnson said Sandra Peterson, currently a Bayer executive, will take on the new role of group worldwide chairman, overseeing a consent decree at the company's troubled...
16.09.2012
- In a tax decision with broad impact for manufacturing companies, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that Dow Chemical could not retroactively claim research and development tax...
06.09.2012
- Solvay is doubling the production capacity for specialty fluorinated aliphatic derivatives at its plant in Salindres, France, to keep up with the growing demand in strategic...
05.09.2012
- Rockwood announced that its Frankfurt-based German subsidiary Chemetall has completed the formal legal split of its operations into two independent legal entities. Chemetall will...