Keyword: Active Ingredients

Strategy & Management

Science that Enables Solutions for Clean Air, Improved Health and Sustainable Use of Resources

27.09.2017 - 2017 marks the 200th anniversary of UK specialty chemical and technology group Johnson Matthey which – back in 1817 – began as assayers, testing the purity of precious metals. In...

Markets & Companies

Meeting Customers’ Changing Needs

24.05.2017 - Johnson Matthey, which was founded in London in 1817, is celebrating its 200th anniversary this year. Through the constant application of new ideas and new processes, the company...

News

Elementis Pays $360 Million for SummitReheis

15.02.2017 - The UK’s Elementis has agreed to acquire US specialty chemicals company SummitReheis from an affiliate of private equity firm One Rock Capital Partners for $360 million. The...

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Evonik Buys Alkion Biopharma

12.04.2016 - Germany’s Evonik is strengthening its portfolio of specialty active ingredients with an agreement to purchase French start-up company Alkion Biopharma for an undisclosed sum...

News

Industrial Biotech Firm Brain Plans IPO

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...

Plant Construction & Process Technology

Innovative Medicine with Rising Productivity Targets

07.10.2015 - The need to get products quicker to market, to ensure greater regulatory compliance and to boost efficiencies while reducing operational cost is a challenging goal. Owing to the...

Strategy & Management

Easy Access for Customers

07.10.2015 - In late June, Johnson Matthey announced that it will divest its Alfa Aesar Research Chemicals business to Thermo Fisher Scientific. Following the divestment the company has...

News

Chemical Producer Platform to Buy Arysta LifeScienc

21.10.2014 - Specialty chemicals company Platform Specialty Products Corp has signed a "definitive agreement" to buy rival Arysta LifeScience for about $3.51 billion from an unnamed company...