21.01.2020
- China is following the lead of developed countries and economic blocs with plans to put curbs on production, sale and use of single-use plastic products, which are becoming a...
20.01.2020
- London-headquartered Synthomer has received conditional clearance from the European Commission to acquire Omnova Solutions, a US specialty chemicals and additives manufacturer...
20.01.2020
- Bayer has run into difficulty with healthcare providers in England and Germany over the high cost of the German group’s new “tissue-agnostic” cancer drug Vitrakvi, which was...
17.01.2020
- Japanese drugmaker Takeda is facing a large tax bill from Ireland as an uncalculated repercussion of its acquisition of US-managed, Ireland-domiciled Shire at the end of 2018. Tax...
16.01.2020
- German specialty chemicals producer Lanxess has completed the sale of its chrome chemicals business to Brother Enterprises, a Chinese leather chemicals producer. The closing...
16.01.2020
- An explosion and fire at an ethylene oxide (EO) and derivatives plant owned and operated by petrochemicals producer Industrias Químicas del Óxido de Etileno (IQOXE) at Tarragona...
15.01.2020
- Plastics additives and colorants manufacturer Milliken has agreed to acquire Borchers Group, a global specialty chemicals company specializing in high-performance coating additives...
14.01.2020
- The European Commission has announced it won’t renew its approval for the nicotinoid pesticide (neonic) thiacloprid when the substance’s license expires on Apr. 30, 2020. This move...
