15.09.2016
- In a conference call with journalists on Sept. 14, the chief executives of Bayer and Monsanto expressed confidence that their planned $66 billion merger will face few antitrust...
14.09.2016
- Bayer has finally won its hard-fought battle to take over US agribusiness rival Monsanto. The two agriculture giants have just confirmed that the deal will go ahead after Bayer...
14.09.2016
- Japan’s Teijin has agreed to buy US composites specialist Continental Structural Plastics Holdings (CSP) for $825 million. Benefiting from CSP’s established sales channels, the...
14.09.2016
- In one of the largest single investments made at Darmstadt in recent years, Germany’s Merck KGaA has opened a new plant for manufacturing organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). A...
14.09.2016
- On the sidelines of the mega mergers taking place in the seeds- and pesticides-dominated end of the agrochemicals sector, Canadian fertilizer producers Potash Corp of Saskatchewan...
14.09.2016
- BASF has announced it will cut its European caprolactam production by 100,000 t/y to 400,000 t/y in response to what it called “a difficult market environment.” Most of the...
13.09.2016
- French drugmaker Sanofi and US-based Verily Life Sciences (formerly Google Life Sciences) have launched a joint-venture company, Onduo, in a bid to improve patients’ management of...
13.09.2016
- Following a heads of agreement signed in June, ChemChina chairman, Ren Jianxin, and Rosneft’s CEO, Igor Sechin, have inked another contract, setting the framework for further...
13.09.2016
- Air Products’ board of directors has approved the now completed spin-off of the company’s electronic materials business, which trades as Versum, in combination with the sale of...
13.09.2016
- Linde and Praxair have called off talks they confirmed in mid-August about creating a mammoth in the industrial gases sector. Germany-based Linde said its management made the...
