13.11.2018
- German specialty chemicals producer Lanxess and Canada’s Standard Lithium are mulling plans for a joint venture to commercially produce battery grade lithium from brine at El...
13.11.2018
- SABIC is consolidating all its equity shares and assets in companies producing fertilizers into one new company called SABIC Agri-nutrient Investments. The Saudi giant currently...
13.11.2018
- German’s environment ministry is calling for a binding date of 2020 to begin phasing out the herbicide active ingredient glyphosate. The chemical cannot be completely banned before...
12.11.2018
- Evonik has agreed to buy US hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and peracetic acid (PAA) producer PeroxyChem from One Equity Partners for $625 million. The deal, set to close by mid-2019...
12.11.2018
- Germany’s Boehringer Ingelheim has opened a new US biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility at Fremont, California, expanding its worldwide bioreactor capacity to 290,000 liters...
12.11.2018
- Seven months after agreeing to buy M&G’s PET plant in Brazil, Indorama Ventures (IVL) is expanding in the country again through the acquisition of M&G Fibras Brasil. Based in Cabo...
09.11.2018
- Praxair, now part of the new Linde group, is to build, own and operate three new air separation units for Shanghai Huayi’s new complex in Qinzhou, China, which will produce...
09.11.2018
- AstraZeneca, the British-Swedish pharma major, is selling rights outside the US for the respiratory drugs Alvesco, Omnaris, and Zetonna. Buyer is Zug, Switzerland-based Covis...
09.11.2018
- The City-County Council of Indianapolis, Indiana, has approved plans for a $30 million package of investment incentives for Dow-DuPont spinoff Corteva Agriscience if it retains its...
08.11.2018
- AstraZeneca is selling certain rights to Nexium and Vimovo to German drugmaker Grünenthal, having decided the drugs falls outside its main therapy areas of oncology, cardiovascular...
