17.01.2017
- For the first time in 40 years, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is preparing to evaluate existing chemicals sold on the US market that may pose risks to human health...
17.01.2017
- On behalf of shareholders of Ariad Pharmaceuticals who claim their interests were not fairly represented in the sale of the company to Japanese drugmaker Takeda for $5.2 billion...
17.01.2017
- Finland’s Kemira is investing a multi-million euro sum to expand capacity for its alkyl succinic anhydride (ASA) sizing agents in Nanjing, China. The additional production is...
16.01.2017
- Japanese companies Toray Industries and Mitsui Sugar are forming a joint venture to demonstrate the technological feasibility of manufacturing cellulosic sugar from the surplus...
16.01.2017
- UK-based Silence Therapeutics has acquired an 8.4% equity stake in US biotech group Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals to potentially advance progress in novel RNA therapeutics. Silence...
16.01.2017
- Scotland’s environmental protection agency, SEPA, has issued fines to 383 industrial companies or sites – including Ineos, BP and Syngenta at Grangemouth – for their “poor” or...
16.01.2017
- Canadian-headquartered, US-managed drugmaker Valeant said it will sell around $2 billion worth of assets as it sets about paring down its staggering debt burden of around $30...
13.01.2017
- Major Latin American chemical distributor GTM Holdings, majority owned by private equity firm Advent International, has agreed to buy Brazilian rival quantiQ from Braskem, creating...
13.01.2017
- American drugmakers, who had hoped US President-Elect Donald Trump would go easier on the industry than Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders had promised to do, received an...
13.01.2017
- French specialty chemicals producer Arkema is spending $90 million on upgrading technology at its Clear Lake, Texas site acrylic acid production units. When the two production...
