20.05.2019
- Lotte Chemical USA, subsidiary of the Korean petrochemicals group, has started up its $ 3.1 billion chemicals complex at Lake Charles, Louisiana. The investment includes a 1...
20.05.2019
- Bayer has broken ground for its new $150 million US cell culture technology center at Berkeley, California. The new facility will target biological therapies in particular in the...
17.05.2019
- US protein engineering company Codexis has signed a platform agreement with Novartis, granting the Swiss pharmaceutical producer a non-exclusive license to its proprietary...
16.05.2019
- German chemical producer Oxea has increased its existing production capacity for isononanoic acid at Oberhausen, Germany, by an unspecified volume. The upgrade was achieved through...
16.05.2019
- Bayer is reeling from its third consecutive loss in a US court case involving Monsanto’s controversial glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup. Since the $63 billion takeover of the US...
15.05.2019
- A coalition of 44 US states has filed a 500-page lawsuit against 20 leading generic drugmakers supplying the domestic market. The companies are accused of operating a sweeping...
14.05.2019
- In a transaction due to close in this year’s third quarter, the Indian subsidiary of DSM has agreed to acquire the engineering plastics business of SRF for $45.6 million. The...
14.05.2019
- Bayer has found a buyer for its US-headquartered Coppertone sun care business, announcing on May 13 plans to sell the product line to German consumer chemical company Beiersdorf...