06.09.2016
- Hours before he was set to be questioned by the Korean state prosecutor about a corruption affair, Lee In Won, vice chairman of the highly diversified Lotte Group – known for its...
06.09.2016
- At its next meeting on Sept. 14, the supervisory board of Germany’s Bayer may discuss whether to up the ante on its latest takeover offer for Monsanto, worth $64 billion, to...
05.09.2016
- SABIC has agreed a set of principles with Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Group (SNCG) and the government of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of China to jointly develop a...
05.09.2016
- Gilead Sciences is once again preparing to defend itself against a challenge to its hepatitis C intellectual property. The latest lawsuit comes from the University of Minnesota...
05.09.2016
- Japanese drugmaker Takeda Pharmaceutical has secured funding from the US Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, BARDA, part of the US Department of Health and...
05.09.2016
- German consumer chemicals giant Henkel has closed the acquisition of US laundry and home care company Sun Products, based in Wilton, Connecticut, USA. The purchase of all shares of...
02.09.2016
- During the last two decades the pharmaceutical industry was forced to undertake significant structural changes to address mounting challenges from strict regulatory policies, lower...
01.09.2016
- US firms Avantor Performance Materials and NuSil Technology have agreed to merge. Both are majority held by New York-based private equity fund New Mountain Capital which will...
01.09.2016
- Jacobs Engineering Group has acquired the patent rights for Bayer’s BAYQIK quasi-isothermal sulfuric acid converter technology and other related technology for an undisclosed sum...
01.09.2016
- Chinese refiners and petrochemical producers plan to set up a system for benchmarking their carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions as the first step toward setting up an emissions market...
