29.09.2015
- France’s Sanofi and US drugmaker Eli Lilly have resolved their patent dispute over insulin drugs. The settlement announced this week ends a US lawsuit brought by the French...
29.09.2015
- German chemicals and pharmaceuticals producer Merck KGaA said this week it now expects to close its € 13.1 billion acquisition of Sigma-Aldrich some time during the fourth quarter...
29.09.2015
- US chemical producer Ashland has announced it will spin off its engine lubricants subsidiary Valvoline in a tax-free transaction to shareholders. The separation is expected to take...
28.09.2015
- The European Parliament’s delegation to the COP 21 climate talks scheduled to be held in Paris from Nov. 30 to Dec.11 must call for a 40% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, a...
28.09.2015
- US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has exercised its option under the companies’ global collaboration agreement to take an exclusive license from Bind Therapeutics for the purpose of...
28.09.2015
- Kraton Performance Polymers has offered to acquire pine chemicals producer Arizona Chemical Company in a deal that could exceed $1.2 billion including debt, according to news...
28.09.2015
- BASF will consolidate its spent chemical catalysts refining and recycling operations at its operating facility in Seneca, South Carolina, USA, by the end of this year. The...
25.09.2015
- German chemical giant BASF and US biotech firm Genomatica have expanded the scope of their license agreement for production of renewable 1,4-butanediol using Genomatica’s patented...
25.09.2015
- Following the green light from health regulator European Medicines Agency, the European Commission is expected to decide on a final approval for GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK) injectable...
25.09.2015
- Turing Pharmaceutical, the company that sparked an angry backlash for raising the US price of Daraprim (pyrimethamine), a drug for treating the deadly parasitic infection...
