03.01.2017
- An experimental Ebola vaccine initially developed by the Public Health Agency of Canada and the US Army and eventually licensed to Merck, Sharp and Dohme, the international arm of...
03.01.2017
- December 2016 was a challenging month for DuPont. In the most high-profile incidence, the US chemical giant lost a third court case in the US state of Ohio linked to the leakage of...
23.12.2016
- As US President Barack Obama’s days in office wind down and in the gap before the next president, Donald Trump, takes office on Jan. 21, 2017, the so-called “lame duck” is showing...
23.12.2016
- Germany’s Evonik has announced it will build a production plant for precipitated silica at Charleston, South Carolina, USA to supply the tire industry with the product used to...
22.12.2016
- In its final determination, the full International Trade Commission (ITC) has ruled that Umicore infringed the patents of BASF and Argonne National Laboratory for nickel-manganese...
22.12.2016
- After US healthcare company Johnson & Johnson bowed out of the race to strike a deal with Swiss biotech-pharmaceuticals company Actelion, and Sanofi was reported to have launched...
21.12.2016
- Industrial gases producers Linde of Germany and Praxair of the US have formally agreed to merge in an all-stock transaction, at present still non-binding. The new transatlantic...
21.12.2016
- US renewable materials company BioAmber and South Korea-based CJ CheilJedang Corporation (CJCJ) have signed a non-binding letter of intent (LOI) to establish a joint venture in...
