Novartis will commence a tender offer upon completion of works council consultation and AAA’s Board of Directors recommending the tender offer to its shareholders. The deal will help the company to strengthen its oncology portfolio with both near-term product launches as well as a new technology platform.

The company has sold its shares in its joint venture, Hisun-Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, to Sapphire I (HK) Holdings. Post the transfer, the joint venture will retain its current rights to manufacture, sell and distribute the company’s products in China.

Future chemicals could be generated from shale gas, biomass, residual materials and waste gas — In fact, chemical companies and institutes around the world are working on the material use of CO2 and other effluents. Are projects like Carbon2Chem bringing about a new era of recycling management?

BASF has recently announced the commercial launch of Fourtune, a new Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) catalyst product for gasoil feedstock. The new FCC is the latest product based on BASF’s Multiple Framework Topology (MFT) technology.

Finnish companies Stora Enso and Kemira have started the construction work for pilot projects addressing water-related issues in three villages in Guangxi Province in Southern China.

Collaboration, sharing experiences, and digital working are the keywords that feature Stay Connect!, the digital platform launched by Ima to enhance and offer all the Group’s digital products on a single touchpoint.

Air Products will be constructing three new nitrogen plants in the Netherlands for NV Nederlandse Gasunie. With a capacity to produce 180,000 m3 of nitrogen per hour, the energy project will be used to condition imported natural gas and end gas extraction at its Groningen Field.

Weather green fuel or energy storage for overrun of solar and wind energy — hydrogen is an essential building block of the energy transition. Therefrom also Siemens benefits. The Technology-Company has been awarded to supply hydrogen electrolysis system to Germany and Switzerland.

India’s Department of Science and Technology has set up the Task Force with an aim to upscale relevant Covid-19 technologies in the country and look for new developing solutions to fight the pandemic. It will also fund nearly market-ready solutions in the area of diagnostics, testing, health care delivery solutions, and equipment supplies.

How is the rubber contained in a dandelion’s milky white fluid formed? A team led by scientists from Münster University and from the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology, IME, (Münster branch), has now identified proteins which play a key role in the production of rubber in the plant.