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GE Healthcare Life Sciences and Rentschler Mark Handover

16.04.2015 - GE Healthcare Life Sciences has handed over its 1000th ÄKTAprocess to Rentschler Biotechnologie for use in the expanded biopharmaceutical manufacturing capabilities Rentschler has...

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Bayer to Build Hemophilia A New Testing Facility in California

16.04.2015 - Bayer HealthCare has announced plans to invest $100 million in a product testing facility at its Berkeley, California, US manufacturing site to support the next generation of...

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Novartis Gets Green Light to Buy GSK Cancer Drugs

27.02.2015 - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has granted Novartis permission to acquire the GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) oncology portfolio - with some strings attached. Canada's competition...

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Bayer's Carve-Out of MaterialScience on Track for 2016

27.02.2015 - The Bayer group is on track to become a pure life sciences group by mid-2016, by which time it intends to have carved out its plastics sub-group, CEO Marijn Dekkers said at the...

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Perrigo to Acquire Omega Pharma for €2.48 Million

18.11.2014 - To expand its over-the-counter products portfolio, Irish consumer healthcare company Perrigo plans to acquire Belgium's Omega Pharma for €2.48 billion, excluding debt. Perrigo...

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Momentive Expands Two Plants in Thailand

16.11.2014 - Momentive Performance Materials has inaugurated two new expansions of its facilities at Rayong, Thailand, in response to what the company said is "growing Asian market demand for...

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Bayer Buoyed by Health and Agriculture in Q3

31.10.2014 - Buoyed by a strong performance in its Healthcare and CropScience businesses in the third quarter, Bayer has raised its forecast for full year 2014. CEO Marijn Dekkers said he...

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Bayer Said to Have Tapped Rothschild for BMS Float

23.09.2014 - Bayer is said to have chosen investment bank Rothschild to advise on its plan for an initial public offering (ipo) of engineering plastics sub-group Bayer MaterialScience (BMS)...