30.06.2017
- Germany’s BASF has said it plans to invest around €200 million to strengthen position in the market for the painkiller Ibuprofen market. This will entail building a new world-scale...
29.06.2017
- Major US packaging company Sonoco has agreed to buy Clear Lam Packaging for about $170 million in cash. The transaction, which is subject to regulatory approval, is expected to...
29.06.2017
- Bayer and Sumitomo Chemical have agreed to cooperate in developing new fungicides aimed at controlling soybean diseases in Brazil. Financial details of the partnership were not...
29.06.2017
- To build up its seeds business, Swiss agrochemicals major, recently acquired by ChemChina, is eager to pick up some of the assets German rival Bayer will be forced to divest in...
29.06.2017
- In a two-step transaction, internationally active German chemical distributor Brenntag plans to acquire all of the shares in specialty chemical distributor Wellstar Enterprises...
28.06.2017
- A US federal jury in Kansas City, Kansas, has ordered Syngenta to pay $217.7 million in compensation to more than 7,000 of the state’s farmers over the Swiss group’s decision to...
28.06.2017
- The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) has suspended Astellas UK’s membership for a further 12 months from Jun. 24 because of several serious breaches of its...
28.06.2017
- Mexico's Federal Economic Competition Commission (Cofece), the country’s regulatory authority, has become the seventh to greenlight the planned $130 million merger of Dow and...
28.06.2017
- BASF, Cargill and Procter & Gamble (P&G), all of whom have a stake in the coconut oil industry, have joined together with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale...
27.06.2017
- Israel Chemicals (ICL) is seeking to sell subsidiaries and assets with low synergies, which could be worth more than $500 million, Reuters news agency has reported. Speaking at an...
