31.10.2011
- German drugs and chemicals group Merck KGaA cut the top end of its 2011 sales forecast after sluggish demand for consumer electronics dimmed prospects for its liquid crystals...
26.10.2011
- With more and more players in big pharma looking to outsource in order to focus on core competencies, custom manufacturers stand to benefit from this shift. The most exciting trend...
26.10.2011
- The challenges facing the pharma industry today - impending patent cliff, pressure coming from pharmerging markets, etc. - make the playing field rife with opportunities for pharma...
26.10.2011
- Tailor-made - Almost 30,000 people visited the CPhI in Paris last year - that's equivalent to the population of an averaged-sized town. While the show has grown and grown since its...
26.10.2011
- In his book "Fine Chemicals - The Industry and the Business," Dr. Peter Pollak provides a comprehensive view on one of the most challenging segments of the modern chemical industry...
26.10.2011
- Tearing Down Walls - The year 2000 marked a new beginning for family-owned Ferak Berlin GmbH. Today, the company produces fine chemicals for the life science and electronic...
24.10.2011
- Messer, an industrial gases specialist, is installing a reactor cooling unit at Lanxess. The Cryocontrol unit, which uses cryogenic liquid nitrogen as a coolant, will be used for...
24.10.2011
- Europe's biggest urea plant comes on-stream: The Dortmund-based ThyssenKrupp EPC contractors have supplied and commissioned a plant for the production of 3,500 tons per day of urea...
24.10.2011
- Evonik Industries has commissioned a new plant in the town of Sinich in northern Italy for the production of high-purity Siridion chlorosilanes. Evonik supplies the chlorosilanes...
20.10.2011
- Up To Task - Facing a huge patent cliff and a less-than-robust pipeline, pharma companies must look to customized and personalized medicines. This is where API manufacturers are...
