16.03.2017
- Andreas Kreimeyer has been proposed to succeed Ralf Bethke as chairman of the supervisory board of German minerals specialist K+S following the company’s annual general meeting...
16.03.2017
- The European Chemicals Agency’s (ECHA) Committee for risk assessment, RAC, has cleared the chemical compound glyphosate – the active ingredient in herbicides such as Monsanto’s...
15.03.2017
- Ineos is taking another major step toward controlling its own European feedstock supply. The Swiss-based petrochemicals giant said it has signed an agreement with infrastructure...
15.03.2017
- US activist investor Bill Ackman is pulling the plug on his Pershing Square Capital Management hedge fund’s loss-making engagement in drugmaker Valeant. After the close of trading...
14.03.2017
- US President Donald Trump has chosen Scott Gottlieb to head the Food and Drug Administration. The 44-year-old former physician, who served as deputy FDA commissioner of medical and...
14.03.2017
- BASF has inaugurated its new Innovation Campus Asia Pacific in Mumbai, India its largest R&D investment in South Asia to date. The €50 million investment is said to “significantly...
13.03.2017
- Bayer and Monsanto are now prepared to divest assets worth $2.5 billion in return for regulatory approval of their proposed merger, news agencies have reported. This is nearly a...
13.03.2017
- After acquiring the remaining stake in Bamboo Therapeutics, a privately held gene therapy group based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, last year in a drive to be a major player...
