Actavis, the indebted Icelandic generic drugs maker looking to buy Ratiopharm, has raised the prospect of taking the enlarged company public should it win the auction.… more

LyondellBasell has filed a restructuring plan, rejecting a $14.5 billion takeover bid from Reliance Industries.(Photo collage by Tom McNemar/Fotolia)… more

G.I.T. speaks with Dr. Karl-Ludwig Kley, Chairman of the Executive Board of Merck, about the company's takeover of Millipore.… more

Chemicals derived from biological raw materials like wood and straw are being touted as the next big thing for the chemical industry and its customers.… more

Hexion Q4 Net Loss Narrows; Sales Drop

Privately held Hexion Specialty Chemicals said its fourth-quarter net loss narrowed sharply, helped in part by falling costs and improving volume. ...
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Israel's Teva Says Chairman Hurvitz Stands Down

Eli Hurvitz is standing down from the chairmanship of Israel's Teva Pharmaceutical Industries , ending a 30-year term at the company during which he ...
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Abbott to Buy Facet for $27/Share, Topping Biogen Bid

Facet Biotech has agreed to be acquired by Abbott Laboratories for $27 a share, topping a hostile offer of $17.50 a share made last year by Biogen ...
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Actavis Plays IPO Card In Ratiopharm Battle

Actavis, the indebted Icelandic generic drugs maker looking to buy German peer Ratiopharm, has raised the prospect of taking the enlarged company ...
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Announcing GEATube: The World of GEA 3-D Animation

What YouTube has done for "broadcast yourself" technology so GEATube is set to do for professional videos and high quality 3-D animations from GEA ...
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Flexible Ex-Type Light Guide Luminaire

The space available on reactors is frequently very restricted. And wherever sections of the process need to be illuminated, the question that often ...
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CAN Fieldbus for Industrial Automation

Innately many IPCs don't have an interface for the connection of one or more CAN busses. PEAK-System offers CAN interfaces for many standard computer ...
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Super Clean Mill (SCM)

The Super Clean Mill is a newly developed pin mill with heavy impact characteristics that satisfies the needs for a GMP in the pharmaceutical and ...
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Alert To Danger

Avoid Interruptions - The automation of technical processes in the natural gas and oil processing industry is already well advanced and the operation ... more

Industry Meets School

Learning By Doing - The research team weighs a plastic granule on the integrated scale of a microwave dryer. The members of the technology team are ... more

Higher Yields And Less Waste

Innovation - Biodiesel, the methyl ester of fatty acid, has been accepted as a renewablesourced alternative to fossil-derived diesel fuel. Today, in ... more

Flexibility And Security

Bioscada Process Automation

Bioengineering‘s control software Bioscada is not designed as isolated software package and enables integration of diverse interfaces. This creates ...
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Revolution Is Progress

The Art of Rotation in the CIP Process

Suitability of static spray balls in validated cleaning processes of biopharmaceutical plants is not unlimited. Bioengineering's RotaCIP is a ...
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Shrink-Wrapped Savings

Polyethylene Film Replaces Transport Pallets

Evolution -The human shoulder was the means of the choice over generations when bags had to be transported. Relief was first felt with the ...
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Structured Polymers Adsorb Better

Influence of Anchoring Groups on Pigment Stabilization Properties

Stabilization Differences - Acrylic AB block copolymers with different pigment adsorbing groups exhibit, depending on the particular pigments and ...
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