02.11.2018
- Dewayne Johnson, a terminally ill former school groundskeeper, has accepted a California judge’s reduced award in a case he won against Monsanto in August. Johnson blames the...
01.11.2018
- Borealis is collaborating with Belgian start-up Qpinch to scale up a novel technology that recovers industrial waste heat and cuts CO2 emissions. The Qpinch heat transformer...
01.11.2018
- Japanese drugmaker Takeda has confirmed it is talking to the European Commission about selling Shire’s inflammatory bowel disease candidate SHP647, along with some associated...
01.11.2018
- Merck KGaA, the German pharmaceuticals, chemicals and laboratory science group, is selling its MilliporeSigma Flow Cytometry unit to Luminex, based at Austin, Texas, in the US. The...
31.10.2018
- Chemberry, an innovative internet platform enabling chemical buyers to easily find the ingredients they need, has launched its first industry sector. Initially covering personal...
31.10.2018
- An antiviral pill taken daily by thousands of HIV-positive men in Australia has led to a “globally unprecedented” reduction in new infections, according to what is being called...
31.10.2018
- BASF and Sinopec have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to expand their existing joint venture and build a second steam cracker in Nanjing, China. The companies said the...
31.10.2018
- A US federal appeals court has rejected an appeal by Danish biopharma Forward Pharma against the validity of Biogen’s patent for blockbuster multiple sclerosis (MS) drug Tecfidera...
30.10.2018
- Activist investor Trian wants PPG Industries to oust its CEO Michael McGarry and replace him with former chairman and CEO Charles Bunch, while also suggesting the US paintmaker...
30.10.2018
- Germany’s BASF and Korea’s KOLON PLASTICS have started up a new $220 million, 70,000 t/y plant for the engineering plastic polyoxymethylene (POM) at their 50:50 joint venture KOLON...
