26.02.2016
- Bayer has refused to be drawn on when it plans to reduce the 69% stake it holds in Covestro, the former Bayer MaterialScience, following the flotation of 31% on the stock market in...
27.01.2016
- Covestro, the former Bayer MaterialScience, is investing around €20 million in one of its downstream operations, expanding capacity for polycarbonate film at Dormagen, Germany. The...
20.01.2016
- As Asia’s burgeoning chemical giant ChemChina sharpens its focus on European takeover targets – it recently bought plastics machinery manufacturer Krauss Maffei and made a bid for...
15.01.2016
- Netherlands-based biomaterials producer Reverdia has signed a non-assert agreement with BioAmber of the US with regard to intellectual property rights for bio-succinic acid. The...
12.01.2016
- Globally, mergers and acquisitions at a value of USD 372 billion were recorded in the chemical and pharmaceutical sector in 2015. This amounts to an increase of 74% compared with...
07.12.2015
- Just weeks after its spin-off from Bayer, German engineering plastics producer Covestro has announced its first streamlining measure, saying it plans to close its 170,000 t/y MDI...
18.11.2015
- BASF inaugurated its new €1 billion TDI complex at Ludwigshafen on Nov. 16 at a ceremony attended by Germany’s vice chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel, and the prime minister of the state...
22.10.2015
- BioAmber Sarnia, bio-succinic acid production joint venture of the Minnesota, USA-based company with Mitsui & Co of Japan, has begun operating its manufacturing plant in Sarnia...
