04.12.2017
- Kåre Schultz, new chief executive officer of debt-plagued Israeli drugmaker Teva, is moving rapidly to make good on his pledge to improve the company’s financial performance and...
01.12.2017
- ExxonMobil Chemical has signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement and a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with authorities in Huizhou, China, to jointly evaluate plans for...
01.12.2017
- By a vote of 99.9%, AkzoNobel shareholders attending the company’s extraordinary general meeting in Amsterdam on Nov. 30 approved the proposed separation of the Specialty Chemicals...
30.11.2017
- Germany’s deciding vote in favor of the European Commission’s five-year reprieve for the controversial herbicide chemical glyphosate at the Nov. 27 meeting of the EU’s Standing...
29.11.2017
- Thomas Toepfer has been appointed new chief financial officer of German engineering plastics producer Covestro. On Apr. 1, 2018, the 45-year-old will take over from Patrick Thomas...
29.11.2017
- The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new two-drug regimen for HIV that reports suggest could shake up the $22 billion market for products to treat the immune...
28.11.2017
- On its seventh try, the EU’s Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed at a meeting on Nov. 27 agreed to extend the license of the herbicide chemical glyphosate for five...
27.11.2017
- Following a supervisory board meeting and a first face-to-face encounter with activist investor White Tale last week, Swiss specialty chemicals producer Clariant said it would...