Bayer has set aside €480 million to defend lawsuits brought by people who claim that Monsanto’s glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup caused their non-Hodgkins lymphoma, CEO Werner Baumann said at the company’s annual general meeting on Apr. 28.
Sanofi has urged the EU to create an equivalent of the US government’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to coordinate research into a Covid-19 vaccine, or face being left behind.
US-based plastics, latex binders and synthetic rubber producer Trinseo is once again changing its leadership team as it implements a flatter organization to streamline decision making.
Plastics manufacturer Sekisui Chemical and the Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ) have formed a joint venture to verify and commercialize combustible waste-to-ethanol technology.
Ineos has joined forces with Plastic Energy to help promote and employ chemical recycling.
Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (PEI), Germany’s federal institute for vaccines and biomedicines, has given the go-ahead for Germany’s first clinical trial of a vaccine candidate to prevent COVID-19.
