20.12.2016
- As a US government criminal investigation into anticompetitive drug pricing tactics continues, federal prosecutors have charged two former pharmaceutical industry executives with...
20.12.2016
- BASF has announced changes to its managing board as well as a redistribution of board responsibilities from May 13, 2017. Two executives are due to step down, with Margret Suckale...
19.12.2016
- Continuing in the mode of choosing people for his cabinet who are not politicians and who have ties to industry, US president-elect, Donald Trump, has chosen ExxonMobil’s chairman...
19.12.2016
- Dow Chemical has announced it will convert $4 billion worth of preferred shares held by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway investment vehicle and Kuwait's sovereign wealth fund...
16.12.2016
- Lonza has clinched the mooted deal to buy Capsugel, a Morristown, New Jersey, USA-based producer of capsules for delivery of drugs and food supplements, from US private equity...
16.12.2016
- After seeing no growth in 2016, the European chemical industry council CEFIC is forecasting a “small uptick” in EU chemical production of around 0.5% in 2017, despite a “volatile...
15.12.2016
- BASF has completed its acquisition of Chemetall from US chemicals and catalyst group Albemarle. The company based at Hamm, Germany, with sales of $845 million in 2015, specializes...
15.12.2016
- Drugmaker Sanofi is facing a class action suit brought by French parents who allege their children suffered birth defects because their mothers took the company’s anticonvulsant...
