24.03.2016
- Spanish distributor Lumar and BASF are to start an exclusive collaboration to market specialty amines to the cooling lubricants and metalworking fluids industry in Europe. Lumar...
24.03.2016
- A federal jury in California has ruled in favour of US drug maker Merck in a high-profile patent dispute with rival Gilead Sciences over sofosbuvir, the active ingredient in a new...
24.03.2016
- French private equity fund Ardian has started talks with two buy-out firms for the sale of its majority stake in chemicals and pharmaceuticals producer Novacap. The firm is in...
23.03.2016
- US private equity firm Bain Capital has sold its remaining 7.9% stake in Netherlands-based specialty chemicals distributor IMCD. Bain placed 4.2 million shares, priced at €31.25...
23.03.2016
- MEGlobal, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kuwait’s Equate Petrochemical, has announced it will build a world-scale MEG plant at Dow Chemical’s Oyster Creek site in Freeport, Texas...
22.03.2016
- US paint company Sherwin-Williams is to acquire rival firm Valspar for $11.3 billion in an all-cash deal. Sherwin-Williams will pay $113 per share, which represents a premium of...
22.03.2016
- Britain’s largest pharmaceutical company, Glaxo SmithKline (GSK), has formed a strategic collaboration with German biotechnology firm Miltenyi Biotec to develop cell and gene...
21.03.2016
- BASF Petronas Chemicals, the joint venture between Germany’s BASF and major Malaysian petrochemicals company Petronas, has broken ground on its highly reactive polyisobutene (HR...
