14.08.2019
- German specialty plating chemicals and equipment specialist Atotech has acquired J-KEM International, based in Rosersberg, Sweden. Financial terms of the deal that closed at the...
14.08.2019
- German specialty chemicals producer Lanxess is selling its chrome chemicals business to Chinese leather chemicals company Brother Enterprises for an undisclosed sum. The agreement...
Olefins and polyolefins giant Ineos is switching auditors after a breakdown in communication between long-term partner PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC), which has audited the...
09.08.2019
- Bayer has announced it will pay for $240 million upfront to acquire all of BluerockTherapeutics, a privately held US-headquartered biotech in which it currently holds more than 40%...
08.08.2019
- In a transaction valued at around $2.4 billion including net debt, US small molecule innovator and API specialist Cambrex has agreed to be acquired by an affiliate of the Permira...
08.08.2019
- Biesterfeld Spezialchemie, part of the German Biesterfeld group, has won exclusive German distribution rights for the entire product portfolio of France’s Polyprocess. With the...
31.07.2019
- Cancer sufferers in the US seem to be filing new lawsuits that charge they were harmed by Monsanto’s glyphosate-based Roundup herbicide faster than current franchise owner Bayer...
31.07.2019
- US industrial gases supplier Air Products recently completed the buyback of two air separation units (ASUs) from Shanxi Jinmei Huayu Coal Chemical Co. (Jinmei Huayu), a subsidiary...