20.06.2016
- BASF has announced plans to acquire German surface treatment chemicals specialist Chemetall from US fine chemicals producer Albemarle for $3.2 billion in cash. Albemarle said the...
20.06.2016
- German engineering gases producer Messer Group has opened a new air separation plant (ASU) and industrial gas cylinder facility in central Poland’s Łódź special economic zone. The...
17.06.2016
- Ahead of the Jun. 23 referendum over whether the UK should remain in or leave the EU, voices from the science sector were increasingly heard arguing in favor of staying – before...
17.06.2016
- Drug product formulation specialist Particle Sciences, part of Lubrizol’s LifeSciences business since September 2015, has added capacity for cGMP sterile powder filling and capsule...
17.06.2016
- GlaxoSmithKline’s head of vaccines, Moncef Slaoui, has announced he will leave the company in June 2017 after nearly three decades at the company. Since joining GSK in 1998, Slaoui...
17.06.2016
- Czech petrochemicals and plastics producer Unipetrol has held groundbreaking ceremonies for its new polyethylene plant at Litvinov, scheduled to go on stream in mid-2018 with a...
16.06.2016
- Simone Menne has been appointed chief financial officer (CFO) of German drugmaker Boehringer Ingelheim with effect from Sept. 1, 2016. She will succeed Hubertus von Baumbach, who...
16.06.2016
- German chemical and pharmaceutical producer Merck has increased its venture capital funding under its renamed Merck Ventures umbrella. At the same time, the total investment...
