31.07.2018
- Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca has agreed to sell commercial rights to Atacand (candesartan cilexetil) and Atacand Plus (fixed-dose combination of candesartan cilexetil and...
29.07.2018
- A consortium led by US investment firm KKR has signed an agreement to buy LCY Chemical in a share deal that values the Taiwanese specialty chemicals company at 47.8 billion...
29.07.2018
- Eli Lilly has announced plans to spin off its Elanco animal health business, ending months of uncertainty. The US drugmaker said it will file a registration in the coming weeks...
29.07.2018
- Bayer has said it will withdraw its permanent contraceptive implant Essure from the US, the last market where it was still available, after repeated claims of injury by users and...
27.07.2018
- US energy services company Halliburton has acquired Athlon Solutions for an undisclosed sum. The deal gives Halliburton its first chemical manufacturing plant with full reaction...
27.07.2018
- Plans by Saudi Arabian petrochemicals giant SABIC to acquire a nearly 25% stake in Swiss specialty chemicals producer Clariant are being held up by outstanding antitrust approvals...
27.07.2018
- European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker was being hailed as somewhat of a miracle worker after it appeared the US and EU had agreed to end an impending transatlantic...
26.07.2018
- Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche has signed up to a multi-year collaboration with PureTech Health, a US clinical stage biopharma focused on the brain-immune-gut axis. The partners...
26.07.2018
- Shintech, the US subsidiary of Japan’s Shin-Etsu Chemical, has started building the first phase of an integrated VCM/PVC complex at a site next to its existing plant in Plaquemine...
26.07.2018
- Russian petrochemical and plastics giant Sibur is preparing for an initial public offering (ipo) that could be worth $2-3 billion, the news agency Reuters has reported, citing...
