21.08.2017
- AkzoNobel and activist shareholder Elliott Advisors have called a truce, ending their feud at least temporarily. Under a standstill agreement, they have promised to suspend all...
17.08.2017
- Indorama Ventures (IVL), the world’s leading PET producer, is to acquire the Mexican operations of US durable technical textiles maker DuraFiber Technology for an undisclosed sum...
17.08.2017
- The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which is reviewing the planned merger of Swiss specialty chemicals producer Clariant with US peer Huntsman, has sent the companies a request...
17.08.2017
- US President Donald Trump disbanded his US Manufacturing Council on Aug. 16, a day after the exodus of US Merck’s CEO Kenneth Frazier in protest over remarks made by the president...
17.08.2017
- Elevance Renewable Sciences announced that Karl Schoene will succeed Tony Parnell as Elevance’s CEO. Parnell will transition to Executive Chairman of the board of directors. Both...
17.08.2017
- Sadara, the joint venture between Dow Chemical and Saudi Aramco, has started up the last of the 26 plants that make up its massive new petrochemical complex at Jubail Industrial...
17.08.2017
- US chemical producers who have invested heavily in environmentally friendly cooling products have criticized a 3-2 US federal appeals court ruling this month, which said the...
17.08.2017
- German chemical giant BASF has joined forces with Israel’s Kaiima Bio-Agritech, a genetics and breeding technology company, to work on discovery of novel herbicide resistance...
16.08.2017
- As chemical companies are reimagining their entire business, they need an IT architecture that provides both stability and long-term reliability for the core enterprise processes...
16.08.2017
- US biotech Dermira has agreed to license certain rights from Swiss drugmaker Roche and its subsidiary Genentech for the investigational atopic dermatitis drug, lebrikizumab. The...
