21.10.2016
- Two subsidiaries of French industrial gases giant Air Liquide have broken ground on a $60 million plant for cosmetic and pharmaceutical specialty ingredients being built on a...
21.10.2016
- SGL Group, based in Wiesbaden, Germany, has agreed sell its graphite electrode (GE) business to Showa Denko (SDK) of Japan for €350 million, or at least €200 million after...
20.10.2016
- German pharmaceutical and chemicals producer Merck KGaA has expanded capacity at its biotech plant in Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain, by 50% at a cost of €15 million. The facility is...
20.10.2016
- Two days after the explosion that killed three people at BASF’s main production site in Ludwigshafen, Germany, neither a suspected cause had been officially determined nor the...
19.10.2016
- The $2 billion initial public offering launched last week in Hong Kong by Chinese state-backed China Resources Pharmaceutical, the country’s second-largest drugmaker, attracted...
19.10.2016
- US chemical producer Celanese is beefing up its plastics compounding portfolio with the planned acquisition of Forli, Italy-based SO.F.TER. Group, one of the world’s largest...
17.10.2016
- Pifzer has lost its appeal of a UK patent dispute with Allergan over Lyrica, one of the US pharmaceutical giant blockbuster drugs, with annual global sales of around $5 billion. It...
17.10.2016
- Dow Chemical is prepared to sell its business with ethylene acrylic acid copolymers, used primarily in food packaging, as a move toward winning antitrust approval for its $130...
