06.12.2010
- Genzyme shareholder and board member Ralph Whitworth said the "ingredients are there" for a deal with Sanofi-Aventis , but the French drugmaker's $69-a-share offer is "not even a...
06.12.2010
- Dow Chemical said on Thursday it plans to increase its ethane cracking capabilities on the U.S. Gulf Coast over the next two to three years, improving its capabilities by 20% to 30...
02.12.2010
- Today, specialty chemicals group Lanxess opened Asia's most state-of-the-art plant for ion exchange resins in India. The new plant was constructed over a period of two years in the...
02.12.2010
- Novartis AG is to slash 1,400 U.S. jobs in its sales force for drugs used in general practice as it forges ahead with a push into specialty medicines and seeks to streamline its...
02.12.2010
- U.S. chemicals company Ashland and Sud-Chemie secured European Union regulatory approval on Tuesday to set up a joint venture in the foundry chemical sector. The companies said in...
30.11.2010
- Britain's GlaxoSmithKline and Moscow-based Binnopharm have agreed a deal allowing the Russian firm to make GSK's cervical cancer, rotavirus and pneumococcal vaccines for the...
25.11.2010
- Johnson & Johnson said on Wednesday it is recalling 9 million more bottles of its Tylenol painkiller because they do not adequately warn customers about the presence of trace...
25.11.2010
- Genzyme Corp has met the first in a series of deadlines imposed by U.S. regulators for fixing problems at its Boston plant, a milestone that could bolster the biotech company's...
- Modern IBCs (intermediate bulk containers) come in such a wide range of variants today that there are practically no limits to their application as a transport and storage medium...
24.11.2010
- GlaxoSmithKline is getting out of the oral penicillin business in the United States, selling a factory and two key brands to India's Dr. Reddy's Laboratories. Financial terms of...
