07.11.2012
- Indian lubricants maker Gulf Oil said on Tuesday it has acquired U.S.-based specialty chemicals company Houghton International from a private equity fund for $1.05 billion. Gulf...
30.10.2012
- The work to construct a new three-storey production building has begun on the newly acquired company grounds of BYK USA in Wallingford, Connecticut. "This investment in Wallingford...
04.10.2012
- From its base in a business park outside the city of Ghent, Belgium's biotech industry is attracting a global following, benefiting from years of patient investment, promising...
26.09.2012
- Royal DSM, the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company, has invested in the 4th China Environment Fund of Tsing Capital in China. This is DSM's first venture capital...
25.09.2012
- Life-sciences and health investing, long shunned by venture-capital investors, is making a comeback. Several venture firms globally have each raised or are raising funds this year...
18.09.2012
- Billionaire German investor Dietmar Hopp is betting another €80 million ($105 million) on CureVac, a pioneer of vaccines based on a molecule related to DNA, in one of the biggest...
28.08.2012
- BASF has increased its global annual capacity for the production of the chemical intermediate PolyTHF (chemical name: polytetramethylene ether glycol - PTMEG) from 185,000 metric...
16.07.2012
- Technology company The Linde Group will be constructing two major air separation units at the Kalinganagar industrial complex in Odisha, India, for one of the world's largest steel...
