13.08.2018
- US biopharma Ligand Pharmaceuticals has announced its intention to buy UK biotech Vernalis for approximately $43 million. The proposal needs a majority of shareholders representing...
13.08.2018
- Bayer and Monsanto have lost their first legal case as a merged company. A jury in the US state of California ordered the former US agribusiness market leader, since June part of...
10.08.2018
- AstraZeneca has agreed to pay $110 million to settle a pair of whistleblower lawsuits in the US that accused it of fraudulently marketing Seroquel and Crestor to Texas Medicaid...
10.08.2018
- Reacting to what it said is strong local demand for the intermediate used to produce PA 6.6, US nylon giant Invista has begun engineering work on a world-scale adiponitrile (ADN)...
10.08.2018
- PET market leader Indorama Ventures is acquiring French recycler Sorepla for an undisclosed sum. The company with 58 employees is one of the largest recyclers in Europe, operating...
09.08.2018
- Gerald Schneider, a long-time business leader at M+W Group, has joined US competitor CRB Group as managing director for European commercial operations. Schneider (54), who had been...
09.08.2018
- Indian Oil has announced that Taiwan energy giant CPC is considering investing $6.6 billion in a petrochemicals complex at its refinery in Paradip, Odisha, India. A delegation from...
09.08.2018
- US biotech companies Regeneron and bluebird bio are collaborating and applying their respective technology platforms to discover, develop and commercialize novel immune cell...
09.08.2018
- German specialty chemicals producer Lanxess is selling its half of the 50:50 joint venture Arlanxeo to its Middle East partner Saudi Aramco and exiting the synthetic rubber...
08.08.2018
- Inventure Renewables, a US company focused on turning waste biomass into value-added products, has announced plans to build a plant in Jiangsu, China, using its recently developed...
