16.10.2017
- Germany’s Biesterfeld Spezialchemie is distributing products from long-term partner Kao Chemicals Europe in Switzerland with immediate effect. The portfolio includes Akypo alkyl...
13.10.2017
- In a bid to allay competition fears over its pending purchase of Monsanto, Bayer has agreed to sell selected crop science businesses to BASF for €5.9 billion. The purchase is said...
13.10.2017
- Pfizer is reviewing the future of its Consumer Healthcare division. The US drug major said it is considering a range of options, including a full or partial separation through a...
13.10.2017
- German investors’ association DSW has recommended that shareholders in industrial gases group Linde do not tender their shares in an exchange offer for its proposed $80 billion...
13.10.2017
- Chevron Phillips Chemical has completed commissioning and begun start-up operations at its two new PE plants on the US Gulf Coast. The plants will use the US group’s proprietary...
12.10.2017
- As part of their long-term cooperation, DSM and US industrial bioscience company Amyris have entered into another agreement to develop and produce a new class of human nutrition...
12.10.2017
- World-leading PET producer Indorama Ventures Ltd (IVL) has agreed to buy DuPont Teijin Films (DTF), a major producer of biaxially-oriented polyethylene terephthalate (BOPET) and...
12.10.2017
- US drugmaker Merck has agreed to pay KalVista Pharmaceuticals more than $750 million to gain the rights to KVD001, an investigational treatment for diabetic macular edema (DME), as...