27.09.2016
- Drugmakers need to learn empathy and not try to defend price hikes that make drugs inaccessible, Andrew Witty, departing CEO of Britain’s largest pharmaceutical producer GSK, told...
27.09.2016
- General Electric plans to invest €150 million in a new biopharmaceutical manufacturing campus at the Industrial Development Agency (IDA) Ireland’s strategic site in County Cork...
26.09.2016
- Flush with cash from the sale of a major chunk of its rubber business to Saudi Aramco, German chemical producer Lanxess has signed a “definitive agreement” to acquire US specialty...
26.09.2016
- Despite tremendous challenges facing the pharmaceutical industry, it continues with its commitment to innovation and the discovery of novel drugs to address unmet medical needs...
26.09.2016
- The life science arm of Germany’s Merck KGaA has signed an agreement to distribute polyethylene glycol (PEG) products from China’s JenKem Technology. Under the deal’s terms, Merck...
26.09.2016
- In a joint action, 35 US states and the District of Columbia (which governs the country’s capital city of Washington) have filed an antitrust lawsuit against British drugmaker...
26.09.2016
- The French government’s ban on disposable plastic crockery and cutlery breaks EU regulations, the Brussels-based trade group Pack2Go has charged. According to reports, the...
26.09.2016
- With local markets not living up to previous expectations, BASF has corrected downward its earlier announced plans to achieve sales worth €25 billion in Asia-Pacific by 2020...
23.09.2016
- Major polyolefins producer Borealis is studying the feasibility of building another propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit at its site in Kallo, near Antwerp, Belgium. The plant’s...
23.09.2016
- At a hearing held by the US Senate’s Judiciary Committee on Sept. 20, executives of five companies involved in the current round of mergers in the global agrochemicals industry –...
