18.03.2016
- UK drug maker Vectura is buying fellow biotechnology firm Skyepharma in a deal worth around £441 million ($637 million). The merger will create an industry leading specialist in...
18.03.2016
- Drugmakers Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi have said they will appeal a decision by a US federal jury that their cholesterol drug Praluent (alirocumab) infringes patents owned...
18.03.2016
- IMCD France has been named distributor for Covestro’s coatings and adhesives raw materials in France, with effect from May 1. The agreement signed with former Bayer MaterialScience...
18.03.2016
- It’s official. Andrew Witty, CEO of Britain’s largest drugmaker, Glaxo SmithKline (GSK), has announced he will retire in March 2017 after nearly a decade at the helm. In a...
18.03.2016
- Air Products & Chemicals is in advanced talks to sell its performance materials business to Evonik Industries, news agencies have reported. A deal for the business, called Versum...
17.03.2016
- US biotechnology company Blueprint Medicines is collaborating with Swiss drugs giant Roche on the discovery, development and commercialization of up to five cancer immunotherapies...
17.03.2016
- Solvay has announced it will quit the Inovyn chlorvinyls joint venture with Ineos in the second half of 2015, more than two years earlier than anticipated, giving its Swiss-based...
17.03.2016
- BASF continues to draw down its presence in the European plastics production sector. In the latest move, announced on Mar. 16, the German group said it plans to merge its...
17.03.2016
- Pharmaceutical producers performing clinical trials with new drugs should be much more careful in the design of studies, an academic panel reviewing a recent deadly incident in...
16.03.2016
- China’s Wanhua Chemical Group has successfully started up its new aliphatic diisocyanate (ADI) plant in Yantai Industrial Park. The facility produces isophorone diisocyanate (IPDI)...
