11.01.2016
- A change in management at Europe’s Chemical Industry Council, CEFIC, will take place on May 1, 2016, when Marco Mensink steps in as director general succeeding Hubert Mandery, who...
08.01.2016
- Italian bioplastics developer Bio-on has joined forces with Eridania Sadam’s Gruppo Industriale Maccaferri (S.E.C.I) to build the world’s first plant for the production of...
07.01.2016
- In its long-awaited report expected for late 2015, the US Environmental Protection Agency has concluded that neonicotinoids (neonics) pose a “significant risk” to honeybees when...
07.01.2016
- The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it will ban three perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) used in food packaging that have been linked to cancer and birth defects. The ban...
07.01.2016
- In one of the rare stock launches of a German biotechnology company, industrial biotech firm Brain has announced plans to raise a double-digit sum through an initial public...
05.01.2016
- Swiss specialty chemicals producer Clariant has appointed Alexander Gehrt, former senior investment banker at UBS Group as its new head of mergers and acquisitions. The banker’s...
05.01.2016
- Goldberg Law PC has announced a class action suit against KaloBios Pharmaceuticals, charging that the company, until recently headed by industry “bad boy” Martin Shkreli, may have...
04.01.2016
- The European Commission’s ban on neonicotinoid-based chemical protection products has made a substantial dent in business, the agrochemical industry has claimed. According to some...
