01.06.2016
- When deciding where to locate operations of the various businesses Dow and DuPont plan to merge into the combined DowDuPont, the companies will be spoiled for choice. Authorities...
01.06.2016
- Sir Denys Henderson, former chairman of Britain’s Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) has died at the age of 83. Henderson’s legacy is the 1993 break-up of ICI into a chemical...
31.05.2016
- As the Scottish Parliament prepares for a potentially acrimonious debate on the environment and climate change on Jun. 1, which will include fracking, petrochemicals giant Ineos –...
31.05.2016
- Large innovative US pharmaceutical companies will continue seeking bolt-on acquisitions as the need for larger transactions has declined, says the ratings agency Fitch, adding that...
30.05.2016
- Bayer’s plans to take over Monsanto may face higher antitrust hurdles than the company acknowledges, the US newspaper St Louis Dispatch, published in Monsanto’s hometown of St...
30.05.2016
- Air Liquide has completed its acquisition of US competitor Airgas for $10.3 billion, making the French company the world’s largest industrial gases and welding hardgoods...
27.05.2016
- The US House of Representatives has passed the long awaited update of the Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA) by a vote or 403 to12, winning broad support from the country’s two...
27.05.2016
- With Bayer’s struggle for conquest of Monsanto and the ongoing dispute over the safety of genetic manipulation (GM) of crops dominating the headlines, scientific bodies in the UK...
