01.11.2018
- Merck KGaA, the German pharmaceuticals, chemicals and laboratory science group, is selling its MilliporeSigma Flow Cytometry unit to Luminex, based at Austin, Texas, in the US. The...
31.10.2018
- An antiviral pill taken daily by thousands of HIV-positive men in Australia has led to a “globally unprecedented” reduction in new infections, according to what is being called...
30.10.2018
- Germany’s BASF and Korea’s KOLON PLASTICS have started up a new $220 million, 70,000 t/y plant for the engineering plastic polyoxymethylene (POM) at their 50:50 joint venture KOLON...
29.10.2018
- The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new drug produced by Genentech to treat acute uncomplicated influenza (flu) in patients 12 years of age and older who have...
29.10.2018
- BASF is looking to divest its Construction Chemicals business or find a “strong partner,” new CEO Martin Brudermüller said during a conference call with journalists to present...
25.10.2018
- In a call to action last from Oct.1-21, members of the British trade union Unite voted overwhelmingly to restore the union’s right to conduct collective bargaining at the Ineos...
24.10.2018
- A judge in the US state of California has upheld a jury's ruling that Monsanto's glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup caused a school groundskeeper's cancer, while at the same time...
23.10.2018
- With approval received from the US Federal Trade Commission on Oct. 22 – two days before the deal would have been Dead on Arrival – nothing now stands in the way of a successful...