16.12.2018
- Shortly after Environment Canada issued a warning against the use of Johnson & Johnson’s talc-based baby powder, citing health concerns, the publication of a Reuters special report...
11.04.2016
- Two fires that broke out at the respective refineries of LyondellBasell and ExxonMobil in the Houston, Texas, area on Apr. 7 and 8 are believed to have caused extensive damage, but...
18.03.2016
- Air Products & Chemicals is in advanced talks to sell its performance materials business to Evonik Industries, news agencies have reported. A deal for the business, called Versum...
16.03.2016
- AstraZeneca shareholders are said to be questioning the £8.4 million pay package awarded to CEO executive Pascal Soriot last year after he successfully deflected a hostile bid from...
11.01.2016
- Sanofi has handed back rights to the inhaled insulin treatment Afrezza to US drug development company MannKind. Sales of Afrezza, which launched in the US in February last year...
23.12.2015
- Bayer is likely to seek a major life sciences M&A deal in the next few years, banking sources have told the news agency Reuters. The German group’s absence from a recent wave of...
28.10.2015
- Just as analysts were talking up an acquisition by DuPont of the agricultural business US rival Dow Chemical may put up for sale, the company’s interim CEO, Edward Breen, appears...
27.10.2015
- Chemical market watchers are looking especially intensely at the agriculture sector in the wake of the failed takeover of Switzerland’s giant, Syngenta, by US giant Monsanto. As...
