09.01.2017
- Olefins and polyolefins giant LyondellBasell has decided against selling its 268,000 bbl/d refinery at Houston, Texas, USA. Saudi Aramco and its US refining joint venture Motiva...
09.01.2017
- Actelion and Johnson & Johnson may be edging closer to a deal that would give the US healthcare giant at least a major chunk of the Swiss biotech firm, according to the Zurich...
06.01.2017
- Shortly before Rex Tillerson becomes Secretary of State under new US President Donald Trump – if confirmed by the Senate in a hearing set to begin next week – the 64-year old now...
06.01.2017
- Pharmaceutical companies paid twice as much for acquisitions in 2016 than a year earlier, according to an analysis of the 316 drugs-sector deals of the past three years carried out...
05.01.2017
- The US state of Texas has filed a lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration in the federal district court of Galveston, seeking to force the regulatory agency to agree to...
05.01.2017
- Industrial gases and engineering group Linde has commissioned six major air separation units (ASUs), each with a capacity of around 100,000 standard cubic metres (cbm) of gaseous...
04.01.2017
- Sanofi Pasteur, the global vaccines business unit of French drugmaker Sanofi, and Merck, Sharp and Dohme, international arm of US drugmaker Merck. have ended their vaccine joint...
04.01.2017
- In its drive to leave an imprint on the British landscape, olefins and polyolefins giant Ineos has been beating the drum for several years, and the now partly repatriated former...