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Trump Blames Drugmakers for Impeachment Inquiry

07.10.2019 - US President Donald Trump has once again singled out the pharmaceutical industry for criticism. This time, his comments – which seem to have come out of the blue – have led to...

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Brenntag Snares Clariant’s Kohlpaintner as CEO

27.09.2019 - Brenntag has appointed Christian Kohlpaintner as its next CEO and member of the management board with effect from Jan. 1, 2020, replacing Steven Holland who will retire...

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CEFIC Signs Circular Plastics Alliance Declaration

22.09.2019 - The European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) has signed the Declaration of the Circular Plastics Alliance, the trade group has announced. The Circular Plastics Alliance is an EU...

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DSM Bidding for DuPont Nutrition Business?

19.09.2019 - Dutch health, nutrition and materials company DSM could be bidding for DuPont’s nutrition and biosciences business, according to a Bloomberg report. The business, which generated...

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Purdue Files for Bankruptcy

17.09.2019 - Purdue Pharma, the drugmaker under fire for triggering an opioid crisis in the US, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a New York court after reaching a tentative...

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Aramco Plans IPO in Riyadh

15.09.2019 - Saudi Aramco plans to list 1% of its shares on the Riyadh Stock Exchange by the end of 2019 and another 1% in 2020, sources familiar with the matter have told Reuters newswire...

Markets & Companies

ACG Group Announces Winners of its “Art in a Capsule” Competition

13.09.2019 - India-based ACG Group has announced winners in the first-of-its-kind "Art in a Capsule" competition. Initially launched in April of this year, the contest challenged aspiring...

Markets & Companies

Injecting Growth and Innovation

13.09.2019 - Abbvie takes over Allergan, Pfizer merges its generics business with Mylan, Takeda integrates Shire — the pharmaceutical industry is making a name for itself in 2019 with several...

Research & Innovation

The Importance of On-line Process Control

10.09.2019 - Modern therapies of different diseases very often utilize drugs derived from living cells. However, manufacturing of these biopharmaceutical products is a complex process. One of...

Plant Construction & Process Technology

Live-Broadcasting of Bioprocesses

10.09.2019 - The quality specifications of biopharmaceuticals are enormous and require a long list of time-consuming analytics. A big disadvantage of these analytics so far was, that their...