22.03.2016
- US paint company Sherwin-Williams is to acquire rival firm Valspar for $11.3 billion in an all-cash deal. Sherwin-Williams will pay $113 per share, which represents a premium of...
22.03.2016
- China could be poised for another spectacular takeover of a Western company, as China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) is seen to be mulling a deal for Brazilian...
22.03.2016
- Britain’s largest pharmaceutical company, Glaxo SmithKline (GSK), has formed a strategic collaboration with German biotechnology firm Miltenyi Biotec to develop cell and gene...
22.03.2016
- The frenzy in the global agrochemicals market is showing no signs of tapering off anytime soon. Where activity once was focused on sow and spray, it’s now buy and sell. The latest...
22.03.2016
- Safic-Alcan, an international distributor of specialty chemicals, has reorganized its management, effective February 1st. 2016. Philippe Combette has been appointed CEO. In this...
21.03.2016
- BASF Petronas Chemicals, the joint venture between Germany’s BASF and major Malaysian petrochemicals company Petronas, has broken ground on its highly reactive polyisobutene (HR...
21.03.2016
- The former general counsel of Turing Pharmaceuticals said on Thursday that he and other executives had repeatedly objected to a plan by Martin Shkreli, then chief executive, to...
21.03.2016
- Swiss specialty chemicals producer and distributor Omya has opened a new pharmaceutical and nutraceutical laboratory at its headquarters in Oftringen, gaining the capability to...
21.03.2016
- A dockworkers strike at the Port of Grangemouth in Scotland that had threatened to hit supplies of refinery fuel and thus petrochemicals to southern Scotland and northern England...
18.03.2016
- With retroactive effect from the biginning of the year 2016, Krahn Chemie has acquired the distribution activities of the Dutch company Lapis Minerals & Chemicals (Lapis) as part...
