Company Dynamic

The force majeure on MMA, a major downstream market for phenol co-product acetone, comes after BASF declared force majeure on other prod...

Over the same period, spot ethylene prices in Europe have dropped more than Eur100/mt and were last assessed at Eur850/mt FD NWE, while ...

“We’ve now established that high-dose cisplatin chemotherapy – in combination with radiation – is the standard of care for human papillo...

Finalised at year-end The transactions are being financed from by existing loan facilities and are expected to be finalised before the e...

AkzoNobel Acquisition According to the Dutch coatings manufacturer, Fabryo generated roughly 45 million euros ($51.

International coatings supplier AkzoNobel (Amsterdam) announced last week the acquisition of a Spain-based decorative paints and wood fi...

The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) has approved Cipla’s latest first-line triple-combination antiretroviral (ARV) treatment for HIV. The new combination medicine, commonly referred to as TLD, is a combination of tenofovir (TDF

The BA Natural Resources, including the Oil & Mining Services activities, are expected to benefit from the recovery in oil markets. Profitability improvement here is expected to come from tight cost control, which should see EBITDA margins improve fro

“Our Carbowax Sentry PEGs brand has decades of proven performance in helping customers adhere to strict regulatory andformulation requir...

120-crore to set up this new production line, which will boost the capacity to manufacture liquid vials, injectables, eye drops and tabl...

One of Asia Pacific's biggest names in the pharmaceutical industry, CSL, retained its second position in BioSpectrum Asia's Top 20 list. The pharmaceutical giant recorded net profit of $1 billion for the fiscal year 2012, marking a growth of 4.5 percent f

Kerala-based Synthite, renowned for its expertise in botanical extracts for both flavours and fragrance, has inked a strategic partnership deal with Swiss flavours and fragrances giant, Givaudan under which it will develop exclusive innovative natural ing

Performance Coatings Segment income for Performance Coatings totaled $331 million, 9 percent lower than 2017’s third quarter.

Swiss pharmaceutical firm Novartis has signed a $2.1bn deal to acquire all outstanding shares of US-based biopharmaceutical company Endocyte in order to bolster its position in radiopharmaceuticals.

Amgevita, as the biosimilar is known, is the first such version of the world’s best-selling drug to secure approval from the European Commission, and as such is authorised for use in all the indications of its reference product, including moderate-to-seve

Hyderabad-based Aurobindo Pharma has announced that it will acquire the dermatology and oral solid business from Sandoz Inc., a subsidiary of Swiss drug maker Novartis for an upfront purchase price of $900-mn in cash, making it the second largest generic

Other benefits include a ‘truer’ white colour than can be obtained using styrene acrylate copolymer opacifiers, which can come out somew...

The evaluation included 24 long-term economic, environmental and social criteria. Glenmark secured high scores for marketing practices, product quality and recall, environmental policy and management system, corporate citizenship and philanthropy, health

The markets in India is being fed by the recently commissioned Sadara Chemicals facilities in Saudi Arabia and from Dow’s Thailand facil...

• Plastics

Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics (P&SP) is partnering with Time Technoplast (Time Tech), a company with focus on polymer product manufacturing, to develop Pac-Xpert packaging technology in India. This collaboration enables Time Tech to manufacture