Dynea reported a €46-million loss for full-year 2009, compared to earnings of €5.6 million including special items in both years. Operating results dropped 83%, to €3.9 million excluding...
Engineering group Maire Tecnimont (Rome) has agreed to acquire the entire share capital of Sofipart S.r.l, a company that controls 76.1% of KTI Management, which, in turn, owns 75% of Technip KTI S.p.A, an international process engineering company based in...
Energy efficiency measures implemented by BASF in 2009 are set to make annual energy savings for the company totalling €39 million ($53 million), the company says. The savings are detailed in the firm’s 2009 annual report which is due...
The first round of formal United Nations (U.N.) climate change negotiations will take place in April in Bonn, Germany surrounded by pessimism. Connie Hedegaard, European Commissioner for climate change, and the Danish minister at the helm for much of the...
Sanofi-Aventis (Paris) and Merck & Co., have announced that Sanofi-Aventis has exercised its option to combine its Merial unit with Intervet/Schering-Plough (Boxmeer, the Netherlands), Merck's animal health business, to create a global leader in animal...
Kemira and The Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) will establish a Center of Water Efficiency Excellence in Finland, which will focus on developing new technology to enhance water usage and recycling. The center's goal is to "develop unique...
Lonza says it has signed an agreement with drug discovery technology company Odyssey Thera (San Ramon, CA) to make Odyssey Thera’s proprietary protein-fragment complementation assay (PCA) technology, and Odyssey Thera has granted to Lonza an option to...
Bayer MaterialScience (BMS) has acquired Artificial Muscle Inc., (AMI; Sunnyvale, CA), a leader in the field of electroactive polymers for the consumer electronics industry. Financial details were not disclosed. AMI polymers are used in the development...
Researchers at the University of Torino in Italy found that treating polyethylene terephthalate (PET) fibers with a low-temperature, partially ionized gas increased the fibers' affinity for water....