05.01.2016
- US specialty chemical company Solenis has completed its acquisition of Brazil’s Quimatec Produtos Quimicos and its logistics provider Locatec de Araraquara. Financial details were...
05.01.2016
- Swiss specialty chemicals producer Clariant has appointed Alexander Gehrt, former senior investment banker at UBS Group as its new head of mergers and acquisitions. The banker’s...
05.01.2016
- Goldberg Law PC has announced a class action suit against KaloBios Pharmaceuticals, charging that the company, until recently headed by industry “bad boy” Martin Shkreli, may have...
05.01.2016
- Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca has gained approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market Zurampic, a treatment for gout, the debilitating form of inflammatory...
04.01.2016
- Methanex has started producing methanol from its new Geismar 2 plant in the US state of Louisiana. First volumes are being produced roughly three months ahead of schedule, and the...
04.01.2016
- Evonik has announced plans to build a new specialty copolyester production plant at its site in Witten, Germany. The company said the investment in the facility s scheduled for...
04.01.2016
- The European Commission’s ban on neonicotinoid-based chemical protection products has made a substantial dent in business, the agrochemical industry has claimed. According to some...
04.01.2016
- Pershing Square Capital Management, the hedge fund of billionaire US activist investor Bill Ackman, has trimmed its stake in Canada-headquartered Valeant Pharmaceuticals from...
30.12.2015
- Univar, a global chemical distributor, announced today that it has added France to the scope of its long-standing agreement to distribute Dow Chemical’s Amerchol personal care...
30.12.2015
- Swiss specialty chemicals company Clariant has opened a storage and blending facility in Karratha, Western Australia, to support oil and gas production in the North West Shelf. The...
