21.03.2016
- Swiss specialty chemicals producer and distributor Omya has opened a new pharmaceutical and nutraceutical laboratory at its headquarters in Oftringen, gaining the capability to...
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
- 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...
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)...
16.03.2016
- The UK’s Dechra Pharmaceuticals is boosting its presence in the US animal health market with the proposed acquisition of Putney, a Portland, Maine-based developer of generic...
15.03.2016
- British drugmaker Glaxo SmithKline (GSK) has pulled out of a five-year deal with US biotechnology company Five Prime to develop experimental cancer drug FP-1039. Buried in Five...
