15.02.2016
- On the rebound from its failed $27 billion hostile bid for Perrigo, Netherlands-domiciled, US-managed drugmaker Mylan has announced it will acquire Sweden’s Meda for 83.6 billion...
29.01.2016
- Time is money; this holds particularly true for drug research and development. The global pharmaceutical industry spends about $100 billion a year on R&D. Researchers are...
20.01.2016
- If the buzz at the Consumer Electronics Show is any indication of things to come (and it usually is), 2016 is expected to be the year of augmented reality(AR) and – even more -...
10.12.2015
- Oiltanking Ghent and Ineos Europe have signed a long-term agreement for the storage and handling of naphtha and gas condensate feedstock for the Swiss group's cracker at Cologne...
16.11.2015
- 17 days and not a day longer – this was the initial situation for the migration of a process control system of a large resin reactor. With the help of simulation, virtual test...
28.10.2015
- Novartis has agreed to pay $390 million to settle with the US Department of Justice over allegations it used kickbacks to specialist pharmacies to promote sales of some of its...
26.10.2015
- US industrial gases producer Air Products has signed a long-term hydrogen supply agreement with Pallas Nitrogen Texas to supply 44 million standard cbf/d of hydrogen from its...
22.10.2015
- BioAmber Sarnia, bio-succinic acid production joint venture of the Minnesota, USA-based company with Mitsui & Co of Japan, has begun operating its manufacturing plant in Sarnia...
07.10.2015
- In the past 10 years, we have gradually become accustomed to China’s economic rise. In some ways, we are no longer as surprised by it as we should be. I realized this recently when...
28.09.2015
- The European Parliament’s delegation to the COP 21 climate talks scheduled to be held in Paris from Nov. 30 to Dec.11 must call for a 40% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, a...