02.03.2016
- As it prepares to divest its plastics business and refocus on refining and oil exploration, Italian oil and petrochemicals giant Eni has reported assets and liabilities, revenues...
02.03.2016
- A US trade judge hearing a patent dispute brought last year by German chemical giant BASF and its cooperation partner Chicago-based Argonne National Laboratory, which owns the...
01.03.2016
- British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline is said to have launched a search for a new CEO to replace Andrew Witty, who is now widely expected to step down at the latest by the end of 2017...
01.03.2016
- BASF continues to label as “rumor” remarks by executives of Iran’s National Petrochemical Company (NPC) that Germany’s and the world’s biggest chemical producer is negotiating...
29.02.2016
- Dow Chemical has agreed to pay $835 million to settle a long-running lawsuit alleging that it – along with other manufacturers – had conspired to keep prices for polyurethane...
29.02.2016
- BASF has announced it will refocus its R&D efforts in plant biotechnology to concentrate on projects with highest business and technical realization potential. The move, which will...
26.02.2016
- Shortly after the appointment of Werner Baumann to succeed Marijn Dekkers as CEO of Bayer was announced on Feb. 24, Anglo-Dutch consumer goods producer Unilever revealed that...
26.02.2016
- Bayer has refused to be drawn on when it plans to reduce the 69% stake it holds in Covestro, the former Bayer MaterialScience, following the flotation of 31% on the stock market in...