Business news – Page 85

Business
DuPont expands Chinese site

2013-10-29T00:00:00Z

Chemical firm’s Shanghai based R&D centre will grow by 17,500 square metres and house 150 more researchers
Business
GSK forms Brazilian sustainable chemistry venture

2013-10-29T00:00:00Z

Agreement with research organisation will launch centre for greener, cleaner drug production
Business
Ineos reprieves Grangemouth petrochemicals

2013-10-25T00:00:00Z

Closure reversed after labour reforms and government backing for ethane terminal agreed
Business
AstraZeneca to close environmental lab and cut 71 jobs

2013-10-25T00:00:00Z

Environmental impact services will be outsourced after Devon lab closes in March 2014
Business
Pharma manufacturing woes dog industry

2013-10-23T00:00:00Z

Regulators are stepping up inspections, and discovering ever more problems
Business
BASF to move pigments production to Asia

2013-10-23T00:00:00Z

Firm will cut 650 jobs, close UK plant and expand in China and Korea
Business
Counterfeit anxiety pills seized in Switzerland

2013-10-21T00:00:00Z

1 million fake tablets were en route from China to Egypt
Business
Worker dies in Dow lab fire

2013-10-18T00:00:00Z

Blaze caused by ignition of trimethylindium
Business
Roche backs biologics boom

2013-10-15T00:00:00Z

Swiss firm to invest heavily in manufacturing for complex biological drugs
Business
Ineos raises axe over Grangemouth petrochemicals

2013-10-14T00:00:00Z

Facility set to close without pension reforms and government help to fund ethane shipping terminal
Business
5000 jobs to be cut at Teva

2013-10-14T00:00:00Z

Generics giant aims to cut costs and reinvest in R&D
Business
Solvay expands surfactants business with Chemlogics buyout

2013-10-09T00:00:00Z

$1.3bn deal brings firm into booming US oil and gas drilling market
Business
GSK to apply for malaria vaccine approval

2013-10-09T00:00:00Z

Infection protection drops over time, but the firm will go ahead with regulatory submission
Business
Lundbeck cuts jobs in Europe, but expands in US

2013-10-04T00:00:00Z

Depression drug approval fuels US recruitment
Business
Amid huge cuts, Merck vows research focus

2013-10-04T00:00:00Z

8500 more jobs to be axed, but the drugmaker ‘remains committed to innovation’
Business
Aspen acquires anticoagulant brands

2013-10-02T00:00:00Z

South African drugmaker buys thrombosis drugs from GSK for £700m
Business
Malvern sizes up Nanosight fit

2013-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nanoparticle characterisation firm bought for £15 million
Business
Japan confirms Novartis clinical trial data fabrication

2013-10-01T00:00:00Z

Investigation into blood pressure blockbuster continues
Business
Clariant expands into China

2013-09-30T00:00:00Z

Firm buys pigments arm of Jiangsu Multicolor and will build new plant
Business
Algal oil producer steps up supply

2013-09-27T00:00:00Z

Solazyme to provide 10,000 tonnes of tailored oil to Unilever