22.12.2015
- Russian oil company Rosneft and China Petrochemical Corp (Sinopec) have signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate on gas and petrochemical projects in East Siberia. The...
22.12.2015
- Martin Shkreli, CEO of Turing Pharma, which made headlines by raising the price of the 62-year-old drug, Daraprim (pyrimethamine) from $13.50 to $700 a tablet shortly after...
21.12.2015
- In the final part of the UK government’s14th licensing round, Ineos has been awarded 21 new shale gas licenses. With the addition of 700,000 acres to its existing 300,000, the...
21.12.2015
- US chlorvinyls company Axiall and South Korea’s Lotte Chemical have made a final investment decision to construct an ethylene plant in Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA. The facility...
21.12.2015
- As plans for the merger of Dow and DuPont gather momentum, customers and employees as well as local businesses in communities where some of their operations are based are concerned...
21.12.2015
- A survey conducted by the Alliance of Critical Syngenta Shareholders has found that 79% of the 112 shareholders responding to the query support a sale of the company. The poll...
18.12.2015
- US biopharmaceutical group Amgen is buying back from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) all of its remaining rights to the bone drugs Prolia (denosumab), Xgeva (denosumab) and Vectibix...
18.12.2015
- Contrasting with CEFIC’s forecast for Europe as a whole, the German chemical industry has a slightly more upbeat note on the business outlook for 2016. Thanks to the economic...
18.12.2015
- The European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) has downgraded its growth forecast for chemical production in the EU for both 2015 and 2016. In 2016, the association now expects...
18.12.2015
- The third week of December was a busy one for AstraZeneca. Just days after the British-Swedish drugmaker confirmed talks with privately owned biotech Acerta Pharma about an...
