10.09.2019
- Songwon’s CEO and executive board member Maurizio Butti died on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019. Prior to his position as CEO, which he held since March 2016, he was chief operating...
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
- GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has exercised its option to license an investigational treatment from Ionis Pharmaceuticals for chronic hepatitis B infection (CHB). The major UK drugmaker is...
10.09.2019
- Leading chemical distributor Brenntag has announced plans to convert from a German stock corporation into a European company, or Societas Europaea (SE). The group is currently a...
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...
09.09.2019
- Rare functional sugars provide huge market opportunities. The German company Jennewein Biotechnologie, headquarterd in Rheinbreitbach near Bonn, specializes in in the industrial...
09.09.2019
- Peptides make up around 8% of all active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). Those molecules are short polymers formed from the linking of ≤100 amino acids. They comprise some of...
09.09.2019
- Meat produced from cell cultures (i.e., cultured meat) rather than whole animals may be a solution to the problems surrounding our current livestock production system, but it is...
09.09.2019
- The Society of Chemical Manufacturers & Affiliates, known simply as SOCMA, recently launched a more member-centered brand focused on solutions for the specialty and fine chemicals...
