04.01.2017
- French isocyanates producer Vencorex, a joint venture between Thailand’s PTT Global Chemical with 51% and Sweden’s Perstorp with 49%, has announced the completion of several...
04.01.2017
- US-based food safety company Neogen has acquired Rogama Indústria e Comércio, a Brazilian developer and manufacturer of rodenticides and insecticides. Financial terms were not...
04.01.2017
- Sanofi Pasteur, the global vaccines business unit of French drugmaker Sanofi, and Merck, Sharp and Dohme, international arm of US drugmaker Merck. have ended their vaccine joint...
04.01.2017
- In its drive to leave an imprint on the British landscape, olefins and polyolefins giant Ineos has been beating the drum for several years, and the now partly repatriated former...
03.01.2017
- Indian pharmaceutical company Zydus Cadila has acquired six brands from US drugmaker Merck for an undisclosed sum. The branded products are anabolic steroids Deca-Durabolin and...
03.01.2017
- Major US-based chemical company Celanese has initiated and will lead a consortium to conduct a toxicological study on potassium sorbate and sorbic acid. The action is in response...
03.01.2017
- An experimental Ebola vaccine initially developed by the Public Health Agency of Canada and the US Army and eventually licensed to Merck, Sharp and Dohme, the international arm of...
03.01.2017
- December 2016 was a challenging month for DuPont. In the most high-profile incidence, the US chemical giant lost a third court case in the US state of Ohio linked to the leakage of...
29.12.2016
- Russian oil company Rosneft has signed a cooperation agreement with Japanese firms Marubeni Corp. and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for a gas-based chemical complex in the country’s...
29.12.2016
- US healthcare company Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is negotiating a deal to acquire Actelion that would see its commercial portfolio separated from its R&D assets, according to news...