25.09.2012
- Market Transition - When we think about the patent cliff, an image along the lines of a massive waterfall, with companies' revenues in free fall comes to mind. What we usually...
25.09.2012
- Production in Asia vs. the West - Fine chemicals are chemical substances that have a relatively high average price (similar to specialty chemicals), but they are sold based solely...
25.09.2012
- Life-sciences and health investing, long shunned by venture-capital investors, is making a comeback. Several venture firms globally have each raised or are raising funds this year...
24.09.2012
- French drugmaker Sanofi will reveal on Tuesday how it plans to shake up its French research operations in a cost-cutting drive which unions predict could mean up to 2,500 layoffs...
21.09.2012
- The role of the U.S. pharmaceutical industry within Medicare should be expanded as a way to reduce the popular healthcare program's contribution to the federal deficit without...
20.09.2012
- BASF, the world's largest chemicals maker, is to buy U.S. crop protection company Becker Underwood from buyout firm Norwest Equity Partners for $1.02 billion to boost its farming...
19.09.2012
- Lanxess has announced a new mid-term goal for its leading earnings indicator - EBITDA pre exceptionals - of EUR 1.8 billion in 2018. The German specialty chemicals company is...
19.09.2012
- Clariant, a producer of fabric repellency treatments, has increased its capacity to produce next-generation fluorochemicals at its plant in Gendorf, Germany. With an investment of...
18.09.2012
- With a renewed focus on specialty chemicals and innovation, Arkema, a global chemical company and France's leading chemicals producer, now enters into a new phase in its...
18.09.2012
- As the second largest consumer of synthetic latex polymers in the world after North America, the combined states of the EU-27 consumed nearly 2.5 million dry tons of synthetic...
