31.08.2015
- The US Food and Drug Administration has released a proposal for naming biosimilars – lower-cost biotech drugs – almost simultaneously with the market launch of the first such...
31.08.2015
- A former lab technician at DuPont’s La Porte, Texas, herbicide plant has filed a lawsuit against the Delaware chemical giant, claiming she was terminated because of her repeated...
31.08.2015
- Japan’s Mitsubishi Chemical Performance Polymers (MCPP) has added Grässlin Kunststoffe to its list of distribution partners for Germany. The subsidiary of Mitsubishi Chemical said...
31.08.2015
- Amgen has won US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for Repatha, the second medicine in a new class of biologics recently greenlighted by the agency and claimed to reduce...
28.08.2015
- The implementation of carbon dioxide utilization as a raw material in a circular economy and as an energy source takes shape at a fast pace. Various technologies can be used to...
28.08.2015
- Swiss specialty chemicals company Sika is bringing on stream new plants in Russia for concrete admixtures to meet high demand and further increase its market share. In Volgograd...
28.08.2015
- Japan’s Ajinomoto has decided to sell its wholly-owned French subsidiary Ajinomoto Sweeteners Europe to HYET Holding, an import and sales company for sweeteners and other products...
28.08.2015
- US pharma company Alvogen has agreed to buy four of Pfizer’s products in the USA. The sale is part of Pfizer’s condition in closing its $17 billion acquisition of Hospira. The...
28.08.2015
- BASF has started its first production of MDI (diphenylmethane diisocyanate) at its new 400,000 t/y plant in Chongqing, China. Production will be ramped up gradually in line with...
27.08.2015
- A court in Indiana, USA, has ruled in Eli Lilly’s favor in a long-running patent battle with Teva Pharmaceutical Industries relating to infringement of the vitamin regimen for its...
