10.12.2018
- Just five weeks after presenting third-quarter financial results and forecasting a slight decline in EBIT before special items for full year 2018 and a little over two weeks after...
07.12.2018
- Evonik has announced plans to “significantly” expand sodium methylate capacity at its site in Mobile, Alabama, USA, to meet rising demand. Upon completion, the plant will be...
07.12.2018
- UK drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Tesaro, a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company based in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA, for...
07.12.2018
- A year earlier than planned, German engineering plastics producer Covestro has completed a buyback of company shares worth €1.5 billion, or 10% of its capital stock. The Leverkusen...
06.12.2018
- Shareholders of Japanese drugmaker Takeda and Netherlands-domiciled, US-managed Shire have separately approved the merger of the two pharmaceutical manufacturers. All regulatory...
06.12.2018
- To address the US Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) competition concerns over its merger with Saudi Arabia pigment producer Cristal, Tronox wants to sell its titanium dioxide (TiO2)...
05.12.2018
- Hanwha Total Petrochemical, a 50:50 joint venture between French energy and petrochemicals company Total and South Korea’s Hanwha Group, plans to spend nearly $500 million to...
05.12.2018
- A new type of cancer treatment developed by a partnership of Bayer with biotech partner Loxo Oncology has won approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Vitrakvi is...
Covestro has widened its stake in its thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPU) joint venture with Japanese PPS compounder and pigment manufacturer DIC (formerly Dainippon Ink &...
