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AMRI has won renewal of a 10-year contract worth up to $39.5 million with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Blueprint Neurotherapeutics Network (BPN). This renewal means AMRI will continue to provide the BPN with medicinal chemistry and ADME...

• AMRI
• Renewal
• Contract

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• Echemi
• Daily

Denis Hayes was the principal national organizer of the first Earth Day in 1970, and he took the event to the international stage in 1990. He is board chair of the international Earth Day Network, and president of the Bullitt Foundation.

• Plastics
• Environment
• Pollution

Expressing dismay over the government’s alleged preference for imported fuel-based power plants, the Pakistan Sugar Mills Association (PSMA) has called for revising policy priorities and encouraging renewable energy projects in order to ease the ...

• Sugar
• Mills
• Pakistan

The British Coatings Federation (BCF) and the British Adhesives and Sealants Association (BASA) in April joined forces to host a “Halfway to Brexit” seminar at the Doubletree by Hilton in Nottingham to highlight the economic and political implications...

• BASA
• BCF
• Brexit

The Metro New York Printing Ink Association (MNYPIA) announced that its May meeting will be a tribute to Joon Choo of Shamrock Technologies, who has been named the 16th recipient of the club’s Anthony Mauriello Man of the Year award.

• MNYPIA
• Award

2017 saw Perstorp reach a milestone with the delivery of a volume-based sales growth of 10 percent and sales amounting to SEK 13,592 million. EBITDA excluding non-recurring items increased by 20 percent to...

• Perstorp
• Report

German chemical firm, Wacker, has informed that the international inspectorate TÜV SÜD has recently certified its mass balance method for tracing renewable raw materials in silicone manufacture. The company thus has a recognised procedure for tracking...

• Wacker
• Renewables
• Silicone

Leading consumer goods companies including Kraft Heinz, Johnson & Johnson and Carex soap maker PZ Cussons have failed to disclose the producers of their palm oil supplies, despite pledging to achieve traceability in one of their key ingredients.

• Greenpeace
• Palm Oil

The Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi, and Prime Minister of Nepal, Shri K.P. Sharma Oli, launched the ground-breaking ceremony of India-Nepal petroleum products pipeline from Motihari to Amlekhgunj through live-streaming at Hyderabad House...

• India
• Nepal
• Pipeline

The Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Mr. Dharmendra Pradhan, flagged off ONGC’s prolific east coast project of KG-DWN-98/2 by spudding its first well #KDG-A on April 8. The Minister spudded the well fro

• ONGC
• India
• Project

Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) has acquired 17% participating interest in the Mukhaizna Oil Field (including the marketing rights for entitlement oil) by acquiring 100% equity stake in Shell Exploration & Production Oman Ltd. (SEPOL) from Shell Overseas

• India
• Shell
• Oil

The Bangalore Chamber of Industry and Commerce (BCIC) has urged the GST Council to bring petroleum products under GST ambit in a bid to mitigate the impact of sky-rocketing petroleum prices. In a two-month span, petrol prices have increased by Rs. 15...

• India
• BCIC

The authorities concerned have again extended the bid date for Nagarjuna Oil Corporation’s refinery project in Tamil Nadu even as Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (BPCL) continues to remain the sole bidder.

• Nagarjuna
• Oil
• India

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The growth of the international crude oil prices slowed down, giving thin support to China’s blended oil market.

• China
• Oil

According to sources, Jovo Energy Group, China’s first independent LNG importer located in Guangdong Province in South China, recently d...

• LNG
• Philippines

China National Chemical Corporation ("ChemChina") will increase its stake in Mercuria Energy Group ("Mercuria"), while Mercuria will inv...

• ChemChina
• Mercuria

Prices of 869 formulations, including antibiotics, cancer and cardiovascular disease treatment drugs and two types of coronary stents, have gone up by 3.44%, according to the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA).

• Price
• Formulation

Mumbai-based Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd., and Switzerland’s Helsinn Group, have announced that they have entered into an exclusive licensing agreement to introduce Akynzeo, an oral fixed combination of netupitant (300-mg) and palonosetron (0.5-mg) ...

• Glenmark
• Helsinn