18.04.2017
- US coatings specialist Axalta has agreed to buy Valspar’s North American industrial wood coatings business for $420 million in cash, a move that should appease regulators...
13.04.2017
- US drugmaker Janssen Pharmaceuticals has entered into a collaboration with Japanese biopharma PeptiDream. The deal, which gives Janssen access to PeptiDream’s peptide discovery...
13.04.2017
- Japanese groups Ube Industries, JSR Corp. and Mitsubishi Rayon are going ahead with the proposed integration of their ABS resin businesses following approval from their respective...
12.04.2017
- Swiss pharmaceutical major Novartis has chosen to exercise an option to in-license an experimental eye drug from US biopharma Lubris. The drug, ECF843, is a recombinant human...
12.04.2017
- US paints and coatings giant PPG has opened additional production capacity for food-can coatings at its plant in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, USA. It said the investment of nearly $3...
11.04.2017
- In a resolution adopted by 640 votes to 18 with 28 abstentions, the European Parliament (EP) has called for the EU to tighten up on imports of palm oil due to its unstainable...
11.04.2017
- US protein engineering company Codexis has signed a second multi-year supply agreement with multinational food ingredients company Tate & Lyle to supply a proprietary enzyme. The...
10.04.2017
- Sweden’s Hexpol has boosted its rubber compounding business after buying companies in the Czech Republic and USA. In the first transaction, Hexpol paid around €65 million to...
