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Evotec Links with Leon-Nanodrugs

Evotec has formed a strategic partnership with Leon-Nanodrugs, a German-based provider of nanotechnology for the pharmaceutical industry. 

Bayer Biding its Time on Roundup Settlements

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 says US may Get Covid Vaccine first

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.

Trinseo Restructures Leadership

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.

Sekisui Chemical and INCJ Form Ethanol JV

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 Pursues Chemical Recycling With Plastic Energy

Ineos has joined forces with Plastic Energy to help promote and employ chemical recycling.

Takeda Sells OTC Drugs to Denmark’s Orifarm

Merck KGaA Buys Minolta OLED Display Patents

Biontech Gets Green Light for German Covid Trials

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.

BP and China PET Producer Explore Opportunities

FECC in European Biocides Alliance

Top US Vaccine Official Is Removed from Office

Air Liquide Builds Gases Units in Taiwan

Bayer Plans Chloroquine Trials in Canada

Merck KGaA Plans new Viral and Gene Therapy Plant

Saipem Wins Egypt Polybutadiene Project

Frontage Laboratories Buys Biotranex

Sanofi and Luminostics Pursue Smartphone COVID Test

Meridian Adhesives Buys John P. Kummer

Aceto Acquires Syntor Fine Chemicals

BASF and Security Matters to Develop Recyclate Tracking

Nutrien Buys Brazil’s Tec Agro

BASF and Shandong INOV Expand MDI/TDI

Concerns about Bayer’s Chloroquine Donation

Agilyx Licenses PS Recycling Process to Toyo

CEVEC and Evox Therapeutics in Exosome Development Pact

Novealis now Wholly Owned by Borealis

Servier Buys Denmark’s Symphogen

Tecnimont Wins Three Petchem Projects

Lyondell Houston FCC Restart imminent?

Roche and Arrakis Link on RNA-targeted Drugs

Ineos Delays Forties Pipeline Shutdown

Sanofi and GSK Collaborate on COVID Vaccine

Finland Researchers Study Oil from Waste Plastics

Evotec Opens Gene Therapy R&D Site in Austria