22.06.2017
- US drug development company Parexel International is being acquired by private equity group Pamplona Capital Management in a deal valued at approximately $5 billion, including debt...
21.06.2017
- Danish catalysis and process technology company Haldor Topsoe has sold its automotive and stationary DeNox operations to Belgian materials technology and recycling group Umicore...
16.06.2017
- Japan’s Sumitomo Chemical and Germany’s BASF have joined forces to develop a novel fungicidal compound discovered by the Japanese partner and said to demonstrate “high efficacy” in...
04.06.2017
- The boards of Linde and Praxair have voted in favor of a merger that will create an industrial gases giant worth around $70 billion, overtaking main rival Air Liquide. The deal...
31.05.2017
- US drugmaker Merck has bought an exclusive global licence from Japan’s Teijin Pharma to develop, manufacture and commercialize an investigational preclinical antibody candidate...
29.05.2017
- US coatings giant PPG has agreed to sell the last of its fiberglass operations to Japanese glass manufacturer Nippon Electric Glass (NEG) for an undisclosed sum. PPG’s remaining...
24.05.2017
- Johnson Matthey, which was founded in London in 1817, is celebrating its 200th anniversary this year. Through the constant application of new ideas and new processes, the company...
19.05.2017
- Biogen has licensed a late-stage stroke drug from Remedy Pharmaceuticals. The US biotech will make an upfront payment of $120 million for Cirara (intravenous glyburide), as well as...