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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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,...
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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 ...
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Neil Eisberg As part of its strategy to focus on businesses with global leadership, French chemical producer Rhodia (Paris) is selling its sodium tripolyphosphate business at its Huelva, Spain, ...