Neil Eisberg German speciality chemical group Lanxess is planning to move its headquarters from Leverkusen across the Rhine to Köln by 2011. The company has begun discussions with the city to ident...
Neil Eisberg Japanese pharma major Eisai is acquiring US biopharmaceutical company MGI Pharma for $3.9bn. MGI specialises in acute care and also oncology, one of Eisai’s key research areas. The dea...
Neil Eisberg Dow Izolan, the polyurethane joint venture between Dow Chemical (Midland, Michigan) and Russian polyurethane specialist Izolan (Vladimir), has begun operations in Vladimir, north east of ...
UK industrial gases major BOC (Windlesham, Surrey) has rejected a £7.6bn ($13.5bn) takeover bid by German rival Linde (Wiesbaden). BOC, with 2005 sales of £4.6bn, is third in the global industri...
Neil Eisberg BASF and Dow Chemical have launched a long-term venture to produce propylene oxide (PO) at the worlds first commercial-scale hydrogen peroxide to PO (HPPO) plant at BASFs Antwerp,...
Neil Eisberg Bayer MaterialScience (Leverkusen, Germany) is acquiring Ure-Tech, the Taiwanese thermoplastic polyurethane producer (TPU). Ure-Tech is the largest TPU producer in the Asia-Pacific ...