27.03.2013
- Global drugmakers, battered by recent intellectual property decisions in India, are girding for a landmark court ruling next week that could have broad consequences for their...
27.03.2013
- Wacker Chemie is bringing a new technical center for carpet applications on stream in Dalton, Georgia. It offers lab facilities for developing and testing polymeric binders for the...
27.03.2013
- Bayer has appointed Dr. Markus Steilemann (42) as the new head of its Polycarbonates business unit. He succeeds Michael Koenig, who will join the Board of Management of Bayer on...
27.03.2013
- Recipharm's solid dose facility located in Fontaine, France, has been approved for supply of manufactured products to the Japan's pharmaceuticals market following a recent...
27.03.2013
- Dow's Enlight Polyolefin Encapsulant Film production line in Schkopau, Germany, has been completed and the first commercial quantities have been shipped to customers. Since 2010...
26.03.2013
- Monsanto and DuPont have settled a bitter legal battle over rights to technology for genetically modified seeds and will drop antitrust and patent claims against each other while...
25.03.2013
- Shire is to buy privately owned U.S. biotech firm SARcode Bioscience, paying $160 million upfront to win rights to a new drug in late-stage development for dry eye diseases. The...
25.03.2013
- AstraZeneca has seen off a remaining threat to its top-selling cholesterol drug Crestor by settling a U.S. legal case with Watson Laboratories, a unit of Actavis, and Egis. The...
25.03.2013
- Germany's Wintershall has made what it says could be a major oil discovery in the Danish North Sea, pending appraisal drilling. Wintershall, the exploration arm of chemicals group...
25.03.2013
- Delays in developing copies of Roche's top-selling biotech drug are justifying the Swiss company's decision to stay out of biotech generics to focus on improved, patented versions...
