13.09.2019
- Ashland Global Holdings has completed the previously announced sale of its composites business (amended to exclude the maleic business) and its butanediol (BDO) manufacturing...
13.09.2019
- Mallinckrodt has agreed to sell its wholly owned subsidiary BioVectra to an affiliate of private equity group H.I.G. Capital for $250 million. The price includes a fixed sum of...
11.09.2019
- Clariant has opened a new High Throughput Experimentation (HTE) laboratory in Houston, Texas, USA. The Swiss specialty chemicals producer said the location in the heart of the US...
11.09.2019
- DuPont Electronics & Imaging (E&I) has signed an agreement to sell its Compound Semiconductor Solutions (CSS) business to SK Siltron. Part of South Korean conglomerate SK Group, SK...
10.09.2019
- Over the last two decades, customers that buy chemicals are increasingly asking suppliers’ customer service to manage their requests through multiple channels - from classic EDI to...
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...
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...
10.09.2019
- Is it possible to learn from other industries or are we doomed to repeat the same mistakes in the pharma sector? Not long ago, I came across a Forbes article which described how...
10.09.2019
- Competition and increased demand for product innovation are placing unprecedented pressures on chemical manufacturing. As well as a seemingly unquenchable need for new products and...
10.09.2019
- Under fire for its allegedly irresponsible approach to opioid marketing, Oxycontin manufacturer Purdue Pharma is preparing to declare bankruptcy as per the end of September. The...