All Employment articles – Page 4
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BusinessBrexit could push UK chemical manufacturing abroad
Industry leaders say tariff-free access to EU single market is top priority
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BusinessChemical plant workers’ month-long strike
Momentive Performance Materials has drafted temporary contractors in dispute over benefits
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BusinessPfizer pulls back on UK and Ireland facilities
€400 million manufacturing plant expansion cancelled and two facilities to close
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BusinessLinde to cut costs and jobs
German industrial gas giant to restructure to save €550 million a year from 2019
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BusinessNovartis consolidates research sites
Company will close research sites in China and Switzerland, and relocate another from Singapore to US
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BusinessNovo Nordisk to axe 1000 jobs
Diabetes specialist is cutting costs in the face of increased competition
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BusinessAtanor chemical plant in Argentina shuttered
Toxic releases have led to the indefinite closure of the facility after a decade-long legal fight
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BusinessBrexit could push Japanese pharma out of the UK
Warnings that Japanese R&D investment in the UK is endangered by plans to leave the EU
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BusinessPfizer gambles on $14bn Medivation deal
Cancer specialist likely just one target in hunt for marketed drugs to offset patent expiries
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NewsReprieve for some Australian climate scientists facing the axe
Number of climate scientists to lose jobs cut from 100 to 40
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BusinessJob cuts at Takeda, Boehringer and Arena
Hundreds of positions eliminated as companies re-evaluate R&D
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BusinessFibrant to quit US operations
Caprolactam supplier will shed hundreds of jobs, while operations in Europe and China continue
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BusinessDow to cut 2500 jobs in Corning merger
Firm will close silicones manufacturing plants in North Carolina and Japan as it absorbs former joint venture
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BusinessJ&J to buy Vogue for haircare range
$3.3bn deal expands Johnson & Johnson’s consumer products segment
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BusinessVertellus enters bankruptcy
Chemical maker files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for its US operations and plans to auction the business
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BusinessDuPont shutters US plant where leak killed four workers
La Porte plant will not reopen after fatal methyl mercaptan leak in 2014
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BusinessSanction lift triggers investment in Iran
Ambitious state plans and openness to foreign companies could combine to revive Iran’s chemical industry
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Business
BASF to cut 350 jobs in plant science research
Company will also close field trial sites in Hawaii, India and Puerto Rico
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BusinessOil slump reverberates in chemicals
Collapse in crude prices has complex and mixed effects on markets for derivative chemicals