12.04.2016
- Germany’s Evonik is strengthening its portfolio of specialty active ingredients with an agreement to purchase French start-up company Alkion Biopharma for an undisclosed sum...
12.04.2016
- Allergan Pharmaceuticals International, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ireland-based Allergan, has entered a definitive agreement with British biotech firm Heptares to license...
12.04.2016
- The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has suspended the certification of IOI, a Malaysian palm oil company that supplies palm oil to more than 300 companies worldwide. The...
11.04.2016
- Roquette has recently obtained EXCiPACT certification from SGS France, one of the international auditors authorized to grant approval under this standard. The certificate...
11.04.2016
- The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation to determine whether Romania’s decision to write off debts at state-controlled petrochemical company Oltchim breaches...
11.04.2016
- Honeywell has signed a multi-year agreement with China’s Juhua Group for the supply of its refrigerant Solstice yf. Under the terms of the deal, Juhua will make Solstice yf in...
11.04.2016
- Eli Lilly and AstraZeneca are moving into Phase 3 of their Amaranth study of AZD3293, an oral beta secretase cleaving enzyme (BACE) inhibitor that could be a potential treatment...
11.04.2016
- Two fires that broke out at the respective refineries of LyondellBasell and ExxonMobil in the Houston, Texas, area on Apr. 7 and 8 are believed to have caused extensive damage, but...
08.04.2016
- Aesica Pharmaceuticals has doubled development capacity at its site in Queenborough, Kent, UK, giving it the capability to manufacture multiple drug products up to Phase III...
08.04.2016
- A fresh dispute has sprung up at Grangemouth in Scotland, and once again Ineos, with its massive presence in the region between Glasgow and Edinburgh, is at the center. This time...
