11.01.2016
- Germany’s Lanxess has started up its second compounding line for the high-performance plastics PA and PBT at its Gastonia, North Carolina, site in the US. The investment of around...
11.01.2016
- A change in management at Europe’s Chemical Industry Council, CEFIC, will take place on May 1, 2016, when Marco Mensink steps in as director general succeeding Hubert Mandery, who...
08.01.2016
- Italian bioplastics developer Bio-on has joined forces with Eridania Sadam’s Gruppo Industriale Maccaferri (S.E.C.I) to build the world’s first plant for the production of...
07.01.2016
- After nearly two years of negotiations, Brazilian energy company Petrobras has agreed a new five-year naphtha supply contract with petrochemical producer Braskem. Under the terms...
07.01.2016
- Germany’s Merck KGaA and Pfizer of the US are collaborating with US biopharmaceutical company Syndax to evaluate a combination of avelumab and entinostat to treat advanced ovarian...
07.01.2016
- In its long-awaited report expected for late 2015, the US Environmental Protection Agency has concluded that neonicotinoids (neonics) pose a “significant risk” to honeybees when...
07.01.2016
- The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it will ban three perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) used in food packaging that have been linked to cancer and birth defects. The ban...
07.01.2016
- In one of the rare stock launches of a German biotechnology company, industrial biotech firm Brain has announced plans to raise a double-digit sum through an initial public...
07.01.2016
- Family owned Dutch logistics company Den Hartogh is to acquire the UK’s Interbulk, creating the world’s third largest provider of logistic services to the chemical industry. The...
07.01.2016
- Bayer has finalized the sale of its Diabetes Care business to Panasonic Healthcare Holdings. The deal, which was previously announced in June last year, was closed on Jan. 5. The...
