As part of plans, announced in dribbles, to carve 8,000 jobs out of its global workforce to save $1 billion, Swiss drugs giant Novartis is eliminating 285 staff positions...
30.04.2018
- US drugmaker Catalent announced key organizational changes within its biologics business. Tedd Green, former president of Cook Pharmica, has been appointed as senior vice president...
20.12.2017
- At a Dec. 19 meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and high-ranking cabinet ministers, management of Teva Pharmaceuticals, the world’s largest generic drugmaker and Israel...
27.09.2017
- 2017 marks the 200th anniversary of UK specialty chemical and technology group Johnson Matthey which – back in 1817 – began as assayers, testing the purity of precious metals. In...
12.12.2016
- Continued slow growth in global demand has prompted US coatings specialist PPG Industries to undertake global restructuring in a bid to save around $125 million a year. The board...
25.07.2016
- US-based Metabolix is quitting the biopolymers business and instead turning its focus to develop its Yield10 crop science program that it launched in September 2015. The biopolymer...
11.07.2016
- US-based Huntsman, the world’s largest producer of TiO2, has announced it will close its South African plant during the fourth quarter of 2016. Located in Umbogintwini, the 25,000...
17.12.2015
- On the heels of unveiling plans for their mega merger into a $130 million conglomerate before splitting into three parts, US chemical giants Dow and DuPont appear to be releasing...
