07.04.2016
- Swiss agrochemicals giant Syngenta has sought to assure US lawmakers critical of the company’s planned $43 billion takeover by ChemChina that the deal poses no food safety or...
07.04.2016
- The targeted $160 billion merger between Pfizer and Allergan has run afoul of new anti-inversion legislation proposed by the US Treasury, as had been predicted by most deal...
06.04.2016
- DuPont will not reopen its herbicide plant at La Porte, Texas, idled since a leak of 24,000 lbs of methyl mercaptan killed four employees at the facility in November 2014. In...
06.04.2016
- With its expanded consumer healthcare portfolio in mind following the $14 billion acquisition of the relevant Merck & Co business in 2004, Bayer is striving to lift its profile in...
06.04.2016
- What a difference a day makes. On Apr. 3, European time, Pfizer and Allergan said the US Federal Trade Commission’s deeper probe into their potential merger, the so-called second...
05.04.2016
- Results from the just-concluded studies of the Eli Lilly drug candidate evacetrapib by the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, USA, have underscored other findings that industry watchers...
05.04.2016
- France’s lower house of the country’s parliament, Assemblée Nationale (National Assembly), has voted to place an outright ban on the use of all neonicotinoid insecticides in the...
04.04.2016
- Until recently, few outsiders would have called the agricultural chemicals sector exciting. It’s hard to imagine, for example, a thriller or torrid love story or even a poem set in...
