22.09.2017
- Israeli generics giant Teva has completed its exit from the women’s health sector. On Sept. 18 it unloaded its contraception, fertility, menopause and osteoporosis products to CVC...
21.09.2017
- Emerald Kalama Chemical completed start-up of its $40 million expansion at the company’s Rotterdam, Netherlands site. The fully operational expansion increases Emerald’s global...
21.09.2017
- Envigo has made two new appointments to its Executive Committee. The appointments of Craig Boyd as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) and Lizanne Muller as President of EMEA Operations...
21.09.2017
- Petrochemical plants on the US Gulf Coast are starting to resume operations after Hurricane Harvey left behind a trail of destruction. Refineries and chemical plants had been shut...
21.09.2017
- Arkema is expanding capacity for its Kynar polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) in Calvert City, USA, by about 20%, with work set to start in mid-2018. A start-up date and capacity...
20.09.2017
- BASF is to acquire Solvay’s global integrated polyamide (PA) business for €1.6 billion on a cash and debt-free basis. The acquisition strengthens the German chemicals giant’s...
19.09.2017
- German chemical distributor Nordmann, Rassmann (NRC) has acquired 100% of the shares in Melrob Group Holdings. (Melrob) of Crawley, UK. The acquisition includes all of Melrob’s...
19.09.2017
- Process and system automation has great appeal; it potentially reduces the need for manual intervention as well as increasing throughput with processes running 24-7. Most lab...
18.09.2017
- Acting on a government request for more domestic investment and job creation, Taiwan’s chemical industry has reportedly pledged to expand large-scale domestic investment projects...
18.09.2017
- An older version of a thyroid drug made by Merck Serono is planned to be reintroduced in France after more than 9,000 of the country's three million users complained of serious...