25.08.2016
- Japanese firms Showa Denko and JX Nippon Oil & Energy are to acquire the 50% stake held by partner LyondellBasell in their PP joint venture SunAllomer. Financial terms were not...
25.08.2016
- Just one month after announcing it was quitting the biopolymers business, Metabolix has signed a binding letter of intent (LOI) to sell its assets to South Korean food company CJ...
25.08.2016
- Canada-domiciled US drugmaker Valeant has appointed Paul Herendeen, former chief financial officer of Zoetis, to replace its own CFO, Robert Rosiello, as the company struggles to...
25.08.2016
- UK specialty chemicals players Croda and Synthomer are eyeing bolt-on acquisitions as well as larger transformational deals, the chief executives of the two companies have told the...
24.08.2016
- Swiss drugmaker Roche has agreed to pay a total of around $270 million to gain access to Eleven Biotherapeutics’ potential eye treatment EBI-031. A humanized monoclonal antibody...
24.08.2016
- BASF has opened a new plant for construction chemicals in Sri Lanka, its first in the country. The German chemical company said Sri Lanka’s growing construction industry is...
24.08.2016
- Ineos has found a fresh occasion to aim its pro-shale battering ram at the Scottish government’s door. Despite protestations earlier this year that it is quite content to bide its...
24.08.2016
- Bayer and Monsanto have made considerable progress toward a deal of some kind, with an announcement likely within two weeks, sources have told the news agency Bloomberg. In recent...
22.08.2016
- Pfizer has won the race for biotech firm Medivation. The US drugs giant has agreed to pay about $14 billion in a move that adds leading prostate cancer drug Xtandi to its portfolio...
22.08.2016
- The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has cleared ChemChina’s proposed takeover of Swiss seeds giant Syngenta. Although hailed as a major step forward...
