Shire recommends Takeda takeover offer
SHIRE has opened the door to a £46bn (US$64bn) takeover bid from Japan’s Takeda Pharmaceutical.
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P&G agrees to buy Merck’s consumer healthcare business
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Clouds defeated: real-time control system boosts solar chemicals production
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Finalists announced for carbon capture XPRIZE
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Water purification using sunlight and hydrogel
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Industry
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Motiva joins forces with UOP and TechnipFMC to fuel push into petrochemicals
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Siempelkamp develops new process for nuclear decontamination
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IChemE
IChemE makes new editions of top chemical engineering books available to members
A RANGE of new titles, including recently updated editions of Coulson & Richardson’s Chemical Eng...
IChemE announces the nominees to take up trustee positions in 2018
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IChemE launches forum for members
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Research & Development
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Printing all-liquid 3D structures
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Business
Shire recommends Takeda takeover offer
SHIRE has opened the door to a £46bn (US$64bn) takeover bid from Japan’s Takeda Pharmaceutical.
P&G agrees to buy Merck’s consumer healthcare business
PROCTER & GAMBLE has agreed to buy German drugmaker Merck’s consumer healthcare unit for €3.4bn (...
Santos agrees to takeover talks with Harbour Energy
HARBOUR ENERGY has made a A$13.5bn (US$10.4bn) bid for Australian oil and gas producer Santos.
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