12.07.2017
- Swedish specialty chemicals supplier Perstorp has announced the agreement for the acquisition of Polialcoli from Polioli. The deal includes the Neo, TMP and TMPDE as well as the...
12.07.2017
- LifeArc, the UK medical research charity previously known as MRC Technology, is to collaborate with the government’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and Canada’s...
12.07.2017
- Swiss composites materials company Gurit has been granted a global license for Armacell’s ArmaFORM PET foam core technology. The technology enables the manufacturing of extruded...
12.07.2017
- The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has placed a clinical hold on three phase 3 multiple myeloma studies testing US drugmaker Merck’s Keytruda (pembrolizumab) in combination...
12.07.2017
- At a Capital Markets Day in Paris on 11 July, French chemical producer Arkema outlined its forward strategy and announced investment projects for the period up to 2020 and beyond...
11.07.2017
- Kuwait is planning to invest nearly $8 billion into petrochemical projects in Bahrain and other countries over the coming years, according to the Al-Anba newspaper. The projects...
11.07.2017
- India’s Jindal Poly Films has acquired Dutch load security films company Apeldoorn Flexible Packaging Holding for an enterprise value of €82.3 million in an all-cash deal. The...
11.07.2017
- As part of the first phase of a project to upgrade its refining and chemicals platform in Antwerp, Belgium, French energy and petrochemicals group Total has started up a new...
11.07.2017
- Lonza has gained all regulatory approvals for its proposed acquisition of Capsugel – the biggest buy in its history – and expects to close the transaction imminently, the company...
10.07.2017
- In 1975, Asahi Kasei began the first commercial chlor-alkali production using the membrane electrolysis process. This industrial process for the electrolysis of sodium chloride...
