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Azelis, Corteva and Sika to join Together for Sustainability Initiative

26.02.2020 - Together for Sustainability (TFS), a global, procurement-driven chemical industry initiative emphasizing sustainable supply chains, has further increased its impact by adding...

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DSM Acquires Denmark’s Glycom

25.02.2020 - DSM has agreed to buy Danish biotech Glycom for €765 million. The Horsholm-headquartered company regards itself as the world’s leading supplier of human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs...

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Sanofi to Establish new European API Producer

25.02.2020 - French drugmaker Sanofi plans to establish a new major active pharmaceutical ingredients company that it says would secure significant manufacturing and supply capacities that are...

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Wacker Efficiency Scheme to Cost 1,000 Jobs

24.02.2020 - Under the name Shape the Future, Germany’s Wacker Chemie has launched a new efficiency program aimed at saving €250 million a year by reducing material costs and in-house services...

Strategy & Management

Outsourcing Services: from Gene to Patient

19.02.2020 -

Rentschler Biopharma SE, headquartered in Laupheim, Germany, is a leading, family-owned, full-service biopharma CDMO. Owing to agile decision making and efficient...

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Ed Breen Is Back at DuPont’s Helm

19.02.2020 - DuPont has reappointed current executive chairman Ed Breen as CEO with immediate effect, ousting incumbent Marc Doyle along with chief financial officer Jeanmarie Desmond. The move...

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Bayer and BASF Lose $265 Million Dicamba Case

18.02.2020 - A jury in the US state of Missouri has ordered Bayer and BASF to pay the state’s largest peach grower a total of $265 million for damage he claims was caused by drifts from their...

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Sanofi Downsizes Executive Board

13.02.2020 - Paul Hudson, new CEO of Sanofi, has taken quick steps to implement a plan announced on Feb. 6 to reduce the company's executive committee from 14 to 10 members. At the company’s Q4...

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New Energy Giant Takes Shape in Oman

13.02.2020 - Under the name OQ a new integrated energy group is taking shape in Oman. As part of a master plan to revamp the sultanate’s production infrastructure, the government has decided to...

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GSK to Split off Consumer Health JV

11.02.2020 - As part of a restructuring process expected to take two years, British pharmaceutical giant Glaxo SmithKline (GSK) will split off its consumer health business into a standalone...