WeylChem has announced plans to close its historic site at Frankfurt-Griesheim as soon as possible. It is seeking to find roles of the 134 employees, 21 of them temporary, within its other sites in the Rhine-Main area at Höchst, Fechenheim and Wiesbaden.
Merck KGaA has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Versum Materials, a US-based producer of electronic materials. The company’s offer, which Versum initially rejected as it pursued a merger with Integris, was accepted after it was raised from $48/share to $53.
Three companies with operations in the UK have been honoured in the latest round of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise. Diamond Dispersions and Sterling Pharma Solutions both won in the International Trade category, Biocatalysts in the Innovation category.
Ten workers were killed in an accident at a pharmaceutical intermediates and APIs plant in China’s Shandong province on 15 April, it has emerged. This was the second fatal industrial accident at a chemicals-related plant in China within the space of a month.
Envigo’s Research Models Services business is to acquire the Research Products business of LabCorp’s Covance subsidiary, becoming a pure-play research models and services business.
Repercussions are continuing from the blast at the Chenjiagang Chemical Industry Park in Xiangshui, China, on 21 March, which killed 78 people and injured over 600 more.
UK-based CDMO Sterling Pharma Solutions has acquired CiVentiChem’s US facility at Cary, close to Research Triangle Park in North Carolina.
DowDuPont has completed the spin-off of its Materials Science division as Dow.
Libra Speciality Chemicals has despatched the first shipments of its Librateric brand of 30% and 38% active cocamidopropyl betaines (CAPBs) from its new plant at Manchester, UK, it was announced during In-Cosmetics Global 2019 in Paris in April.
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WeylChem has announced plans to close its historic site at Frankfurt-Griesheim as soon as possible.
Merck KGaA has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Versum Materials, a US-based producer of electronic
Three companies with operations in the UK have been honoured in the latest round of the Queen’s Award for E
Ten workers were killed in an accident at a pharmaceutical intermediates and APIs plant in China’s Shandong
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