16.09.2016
- French industrial gases producer Air Liquide has announced a capital increase to help finance its $13.4 billion acquisition of US-based Airgas. Through the sale of new shares on...
14.09.2016
- Japan’s Teijin has agreed to buy US composites specialist Continental Structural Plastics Holdings (CSP) for $825 million. Benefiting from CSP’s established sales channels, the...
14.09.2016
- In one of the largest single investments made at Darmstadt in recent years, Germany’s Merck KGaA has opened a new plant for manufacturing organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). A...
13.09.2016
- Air Products’ board of directors has approved the now completed spin-off of the company’s electronic materials business, which trades as Versum, in combination with the sale of...
12.09.2016
- Dear Readers, Since the beginning of the 21st century, pharma M&A activity has exploded. In addition to mergers and acquisitions, outsourcing of research and manufacturing has...
12.09.2016
- In recent years, pharmaceutical logistics has become a highly specialized discipline. This is why Marburg site operator Pharmaserv established a separate segment for the...
12.09.2016
- Potency pills or even life-saving pharmaceuticals such as heparin – the trade with counterfeit medicine is still booming. Accordingly, drug producers and contract packers are...
12.09.2016
- The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) recognized 2016 category winners Baxter BioPharma Solutions and Janssen Vaccines for their exceptional leadership in...
Growth in the global oncology drug market is an important measure of opportunities in drug development and manufacturing, including for contract manufacturers of active...
12.09.2016
- Reducing nitro groups to amines is a well-known and frequently applied method, which is useful in the synthesis of various classes of compounds of interest in the pharmaceutical...