01.08.2016
- As it continues to beef up its carbon fibers business, Japan’s Mitsui & Co. has taken an equity stake in Forward Engineering, a German company specializing in the design and...
06.06.2016
- ChemChina is interested in buying Germany’s SGL Carbon, which has just completed a carve-out of its Performance Products business unit. According to Germany’s Manager Magazin...
01.06.2016
- When deciding where to locate operations of the various businesses Dow and DuPont plan to merge into the combined DowDuPont, the companies will be spoiled for choice. Authorities...
20.01.2016
- Danish biotechnology company Novozymes has separated its biopharma activities into an independent company called Albumedix. The new company will be headquartered in Lyngby, Denmark...
20.01.2016
- US healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson has announced it will eliminate about 3,000 jobs in its medical devices division, or about 4-6% of the unit’s global workforce. The move is...
19.01.2016
- With falling oil prices making resource-rich Middle East countries nervous, some of them are looking for new sources of revenue to finance their burgeoning petrochemical empires...
14.10.2015
- US drugmaker Johnson & Johnson (J&J), the country’s largest healthcare company, in particular in the consumer segment, has launched a $10 billion debt-financed share buyback...
07.10.2015
- The pharmaceutical industry is entering a period of sustained growth. Prescription drug sales are set to advance at almost 5% a year until 2020, while worldwide prescription drug...
