Keyword: BASF

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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...

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BASF Selects Jacobs as Global Engineering Partner

30.12.2015 - BASF has awarded a three-year contract to US-headquartered Jacobs for projects around the world. Jacobs will provide engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) and...

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BASF and Sumitomo Chemical Explore Alternative to Animal Testing

29.12.2015 - BASF will collaborate with Japan’s Sumitomo Chemical to research and develop an in vitro system as an alternative to animal tests for evaluating the safety of chemicals. As a first...

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Shareholder Survey Calls for Syngenta Sale

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...

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Dow and DuPont Confirm Merger Plans

14.12.2015 - Three days after rumors surfaced of a possible merger between Dow and DuPont, the US chemical giants confirmed the all-stock deal, which they said would create a new entity named...

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Purported Dow-DuPont Merger Creates Buzz

10.12.2015 - News of a possible mega-merger between US chemical giants Dow and DuPont dominated the headlines on Dec. 9 after the newspaper Wall Street Journal, citing sources close to the...

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BASF and Evogene in Novel Herbicide Collaboration

10.12.2015 - BASF has signed a three-year collaboration deal with Israeli plant technology company Evogene to discover and develop novel herbicides. Evogene will use its computational biology...

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NPC Manager Hints at Iranian JV with BASF

08.12.2015 - Iran National Petrochemical Company (NPC) vice president, Mohammad Hassan Peyvandi, has confirmed that the company has been in talks with BASF about a “giant joint investment...