17.08.2015
- German pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim has formed a three-year collaboration with Circuit Therapeutics to develop new medicines to treat obesity and associated diseases...
17.08.2015
- US-based Ecolab, the global leader in water, hygiene and energy technologies and services, has agreed to buy the US operations of Swisher Hygiene for approximately $40 million...
17.08.2015
- Austrian chemical and plastics producer Borealis has reported a big jump in second-quarter net profits, which it has mainly attributed to strong margins and pricing during the...
14.08.2015
- Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (ORPIC) has signed a deal with Austria-based Pörner Group, a leading engineering contractor, to provide proprietary Biturox...
14.08.2015
- Drugs produced at a GlaxoSmithKline pharmaceutical plant in North Carolina closed earlier this week are safe, the company said, adding that production is due to restart by the...
14.08.2015
- BASF has inaugurated its first world-scale production facility for coatings resins in China. The new plant is part of the German group’s approach to stay close to customers...
14.08.2015
- Patrick Thomas and Frank H. Lutz have been confirmed as CEO and CFO respectively of the Bayer engineering plastics spin-off Covestro – the new name for Bayer MaterialScience (BMS)...
13.08.2015
- Two unions representing hourly workers at DuPont and Chemours have called on the US chemical giant and its recent spin-off to cooperate with workers on safety issues in the wake of...
13.08.2015
- Irish drugmaker Mallinckrodt said it plans to acquire US immunotherapy company Therakos for $1.33 billion from American private equity investor Gores Group. The deal is planned to...
13.08.2015
- BASF is increasing its capacity for chelating agents at Ludwigshafen, Germany, by 170,000 t/y. The world’s largest chemical producer said it is responding to rapidly growing demand...
