28.03.2018
- In a move that may explain why GlaxoSmithKline last week turned thumbs down on bidding for Pfizer’s consumer drugs business, the UK’s largest drugmaker has announced plans to buy...
27.03.2018
- AkzoNobel has sold its Specialty Chemicals business to private equity investor Carlyle in partnership with GIC, the largest of Singapore’s sovereign wealth funds, for an enterprise...
26.03.2018
- As part of an overall plan to divest its global polycarbonate sheet business, German engineering plastics producer Covestro has announced it will sell the US business, based in...
25.03.2018
- The government of Belgium’s Brussels region has lodged a complaint against the European Commission in the European Court of Justice (ECJ) over its decision late last year to...
25.03.2018
- US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer said it is continuing to weigh “strategical alternatives” for its consumer healthcare arm after the two perceived prime candidates to take over the...
23.03.2018
- Britain’s largest pharmaceutical producer GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has estimated that its costs related to Brexit, the country’s leaving the EU, could run as high as £70 million over...
22.03.2018
- Petrochemicals giant LyondellBasell has received the go-ahead from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to acquire A. Schulman, a manufacturer of high-performance plastic...
22.03.2018
- Korea-based chemical producer Songwon has begun bulk manufacture of functional monomers at Ulsan and said it can now supply medium volumes of specialized monomers at competitive...