17.08.2015
- US-based Ecolab, the global leader in water, hygiene and energy technologies and services, has agreed to buy the US operations of Swisher Hygiene for approximately $40 million...
17.08.2015
- Austrian chemical and plastics producer Borealis has reported a big jump in second-quarter net profits, which it has mainly attributed to strong margins and pricing during the...
10.04.2015
- The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted a New Drug Application (NDA) from Shire for its lifitegrast dry eye treatment for adults and has designated it as a Priority...
10.04.2015
- BASF has expanded its pan-European infrastructure for tinting its performance flooring and waterproofing systems. From now, its MasterTop and MasterSeal products can be tinted...
10.04.2015
- French family-owned group Roquette has started up a second production plant for its plant-based material, isosorbide. Roquette said the facility in Lestrem, Pas-de-Calais, is the...
10.04.2015
- US specialty chemicals producer Ashland has agreed to sell the car-care products of its Valvoline business to Niteo, a subsidiary of private equity firm, Highlander Partners. The...
09.04.2015
- Anglo-Dutch energy giant Shell has agreed to acquire UK oil and gas exploration company BG Group in a cash and share transaction worth £47 billion ($70 billion). Both companies...
09.04.2015
- Italy's Versalis and South Korea's Lotte Chemical have extended their elastomers collaboration to include styrene-isoprene-styrene and styrene-butadiene-styrene (SIS/SBS) product...