17.12.2014
- Bayer's Eylea (VEGF Trap-Eye) is not more effective than its competitor Lucentis to treat patients with diabetic macular edema, the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in...
16.12.2014
- Bayer has failed in the last round of its effort to block the sale of a cheap generic version of its cancer drug Nexavar in India. In a Dec. 12 decision, the country's Supreme...
10.12.2014
- Bayer MaterialScience (BMS) has inaugurated its new 300,000 t/y TDI plant at Dormagen, Germany, built at a cost of €250 million. The world-scale facility replaces a smaller...
01.12.2014
- As part of a program announced in February to save $1 billion annually by 2018, Swiss agrochemicals giant Syngenta plans to cut or relocate 1,800 jobs to improve its cost base in...
26.11.2014
- Canada's Ontario province has announced plans to reduce the acreage sown with crop seeds treated with neonicotinoid-based insecticides (neonics) by 80% up to 2017. Plans call for...
26.11.2014
- The cabinet of German Chancellor Angela Merkel has agreed on a draft law, which from 2016 onward would establish enforceable quotas for women on supervisory boards of the more than...
12.11.2014
- Bitterfeld, Germany-based Hi-Bis, a joint venture of Japanese companies Honshu Chemical Industry (55%), Mitsui (35%) and Bayer MaterialScience (BMS, 10%), has doubled capacity for...
10.11.2014
- In a Manifesto on the Competitiveness of the Plastics Industry in Europe presented at a conference held in Brussels on Nov.4, the two organizations representing plastics producers...
