28.09.2017
- Bayer and Ginkgo Bioworks are starting a new company that they say will match the biotech’s synthetic biology leadership with Bayer’s knowledge and experience in agriculture and...
05.05.2017
- Sadara, the joint venture of Dow Chemical and Saudi Aramco, has started up a new 50,000 t/y high-pressure LDPE plant at its complex in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. Like the three PE...
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...
22.03.2017
- An enthusiastic response to AkzoNobel's Imagine Chemistry initiative has resulted in more than 200 innovative ideas being submitted by chemistry start-ups, scientists, research...
15.03.2017
- AkzoNobel is launching Imagine Chemistry, an opportunity to partner with start-up firms, students, research groups and career scientists from across the world to jointly exploit...
12.09.2016
- Reducing nitro groups to amines is a well-known and frequently applied method, which is useful in the synthesis of various classes of compounds of interest in the pharmaceutical...
04.04.2016
- Dow Chemical has agreed to fund Irish start-up OxyMem, a spin-off of University College of Dublin (UCD) with a pledge said to be worth millions of euros. The fledgling company...
