03.09.2018
- French energy and petrochemicals group Total said it has accepted an offer by Ineos Styrolution to acquire Total’s polystyrene business in China The deal includes two 200,000t/y...
31.08.2018
- Outsourcing is about the efficiencies of globalization, expense, people, and the challenge of drug discovery. Big Pharma has consolidated and faltered over the past 15 to 20 years...
31.08.2018
- The board of the European Association of Chemical Distributors (FECC) has announced that Cathy Demeestere will serve as the interim director general of the association; effective...
31.08.2018
- Based on results from the Phase 2/3 PROTECT VIII trial, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Bayer’s Jivi for routine prophylactic treatment of hemophilia A in...
31.08.2018
- UK-based contractor TechnipFMC has won a contract from Long Son Petrochemicals to provide technology along with engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and start-up...
31.08.2018
- The European Commission has approved the sale by Merck KGaA of its global consumer health business to Procter & Gamble (P&G). The regulator said it had no competition concerns...
30.08.2018
- With the rapid growth of the Industrial Internet of Things and recent advances in Industry 4.0 technologies like cloud computing, machine learning and remote sensing, there’s been...
30.08.2018
- Canada’s Nova Chemicals in spending nearly $2 million on a three-year program to prevent plastic waste from reaching the world’s oceans. The move is in support of Project STOP, a...
30.08.2018
- The US Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a watered-down version of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan (CPP) to replace it. Under the new terms, states would be...
30.08.2018
- ExxonMobil has shed some light on its tentative plans to build new production units at its complex in Baytown, Texas. A final decision is to be made in the second half of 2019. One...
