06.06.2016
- French oil petrochemicals group Total is said to be preparing to sell its Berlin, Germany-based specialty chemicals and equipment division Atotech. Sources told the news agency...
06.06.2016
- In a narrow non-binding vote of 32 votes to 29 with 62 abstentions, the Scottish Parliament has approved the regional Labour Party’s proposed ban on fracking. The bill introduced...
03.06.2016
- Yousef Abdullah Al-Benyan, CEO of Saudi Arabian chemical giant SABIC, has been elected chairman of the Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association (GPCA) with immediate effect...
03.06.2016
- European chemical production in the first quarter of 2016 was almost on the level of the 2015 quarter, as no significant changes in the business climate were seen, the European...
03.06.2016
- Biogen’s investigational treatment for early Alzheimer’s disease (AD), aducanumab, has been accepted into the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) PRIority MEdicines (PRIME) program...
01.06.2016
- Germany’s Friends of the Earth affiliate, BUND, has appealed to producers of thermal paper cashier receipts to replace the controversial chemicals bisphenol A (BPA) and bisphenol S...
01.06.2016
- German-based global chemical distributor Brenntag plans to acquire all outstanding shares in Chinese distributor Zhong Yung (International) Chemical, in which it acquired the...
01.06.2016
- Environmental advocacy organization Greenpeace has criticized the new Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) passed by the US House of Representatives as “the weakest of all US...
