20.06.2018
- Antwerp, Belgium-based specialty chemicals and food ingredients distributor Azelis said its private equity owner Apax Partners has received a binding takeover offer from two other...
20.06.2018
- Dow Chemical, part of the merged DowDuPont group, has announced plans to increase capacity for glycol ethers and alkoxylates to meet rising demand. With regard to glycol ethers, a...
20.06.2018
- Swiss drugmaker Roche is paying $2.4 billion to acquire the rest of the shares it does not already own in US molecular and genomic analysis company Foundation Medicine (FMI). The...
19.06.2018
- With some 1,000 employees and five production sites in Europe and Asia, the CABB Group is a leading global manufacturer of chemical intermediates and finished products. The group...
19.06.2018
- Dutch paints and coatings company AkzoNobel has agreed to buy Romania’s Fabryo for an undisclosed sum. Based near Bucharest, the company, is a leading player in the Romanian paints...
19.06.2018
- After winning its appeal against a decision by the Rotherham Council in Yorkshire to deny the company permission for test drilling at a greenbelt site in Harthill, Ineos Shale has...
19.06.2018
- Albuvirtide, a new drug developed by Frontier Biotechnologies in China, is claimed to be the world's first long-acting fusion inhibitor for HIV. It works by blocking the fusion...
18.06.2018
- The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted two more approvals for US Merck’s Keytruda, an anti-PD-1 therapy. In the first, the drug gained its first regulatory clearance...
18.06.2018
- Danish technology and catalysis company Haldor Topsoe is seeking minority investors to accelerate its growth and further strengthen the business. The company is currently 100%...
18.06.2018
- LyondellBasell has confirmed exclusive talks with Braskem‘s controlling shareholder, Odebrecht, about acquiring the Brazilian petrochemicals producer. The companies said a deal...
