20.02.2020
- With the spread of the coronavirus raising alarm globally, the US is emerging as the center of the effort to develop a vaccine against the deadly disease. Pharma industry companies...
19.02.2020
- Italian plastics producer Versalis, Milan-based subsidiary of the Eni chemicals and energy group, has signed an agreement with Italian engineering firm Servizi di Ricerche e...
19.02.2020
- Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines global business unit of French drugmaker Sanofi, plans to work with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the US...
18.02.2020
- A jury in the US state of Missouri has ordered Bayer and BASF to pay the state’s largest peach grower a total of $265 million for damage he claims was caused by drifts from their...
17.02.2020
- Shintech, US subsidiary of Japanese PVC producer Shin-Etsu Chemical – the world’s largest player – has finally started up its long planned 500,000 t/y ethane cracker at its site in...
17.02.2020
- US polyamide giant Ascend Performance Materials, which lays claim to being the world’s largest fully integrated producer of PA 6.6 resin, is acquiring Poliblend and Esseti Plast GD...
14.02.2020
- BASF has selected its Schwarzheide site in eastern Germany, as the location for a new plant to produce cathode active materials (CAM) for electric vehicles. The facility’s initial...
13.02.2020
- Paul Hudson, new CEO of Sanofi, has taken quick steps to implement a plan announced on Feb. 6 to reduce the company's executive committee from 14 to 10 members. At the company’s Q4...