04.04.2017
- Germany’s Lanxess is expanding its global production of synthetic iron oxide pigments in order to keep up with increasing demand, particularly in the paints and coatings industry...
03.04.2017
- German specialty chemicals distributor Azelis has signed two new agreements, both with US-based producers. Financial details were not disclosed. Under the first deal, it will...
03.04.2017
- Solvay has sold another business as it pursues a transformation to a multi-specialty chemical group. This time, the Belgian company has agreed to sell its Italian polyolefin cross...
31.03.2017
- UK energy giant BP will invest more than $25 million over two years in a consortium that will build and operate a wood elements acetylation plant in Hull, UK. The new company...
30.03.2017
- Dow Chemical has completed the construction of its 1.5 million t/y ethylene plant at Freeport, Texas, USA, with commissioning now underway and start-up expected by the middle of...
30.03.2017
- Japan’s Nippon Shokubai has agreed to buy Sirrus, a US-based company that has developed cost-advantaged technology to produce reactive monomers at high purities. The transaction is...
29.03.2017
- UK drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and US biotech Regeneron Pharmaceuticals are investing in a gene sequencing project that uses anonymous patient data held by the UK Biobank. The...
29.03.2017
- AstraZeneca’s biologics R&D arm MedImmune and Sanofi’s vaccines division Sanofi Pasteur have agreed to develop and jointly commercialize the monoclonal antibody MEDI8897 for the...
