13.05.2019
- To lighten its debt burden of more than $30 billion resulting from last year’s acquisition of Shire, Japanese pharma giant Takeda is selling Shire’s dry-eye drug Xiidra to...
10.05.2019
- The US market watchdog Public Citizen has sued the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), demanding that a district court in Washington, DC, require the agency to add “black box”...
10.05.2019
- Evonik is repositioning its Germany-based business with polyamide-based high-performance polymers to concentrate on attractive growth markets such as automotive, oil and gas, 3D...
09.05.2019
- Iran has said it will withdraw from at least part of the 2015 nuclear accord known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) if the other – in particular European –...
08.05.2019
- Three workers were killed in an explosion and fire that occurred on May 3 at the Waukegan, Illinois, plant of AB Silicones. The site is north of Chicago. On May 7, recovery crews...
08.05.2019
- Covestro has broken ground for an expansion of its specialty polycarbonate film production at Dormagen, Germany. The investment, which includes new co-extrusion lines, is part of...
07.05.2019
- Through its subsidiary EMD Group Holding II, Germany’s Merck KGaA has agreed to acquire Intermolecular for $1.20 per share, yielding an equity value of $62 million. The US company...
06.05.2019
- Australia’s WorleyParsons has completed its acquisition of Jacobs Engineering Group’s Energy, Chemicals and Resources division (Jacobs ECR) for $3.3 billion. The transaction was...
