Business news – Page 73
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Business
AstraZeneca sells off drugs to streamline portfolio
Crohn’s disease and rare thyroid cancer drugs lie outside firm’s renewed strategic focus
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Business
Lightweight composites drive Solvay to buy Cytec
$5.5bn deal launches Solvay into aerospace materials business
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Opinion
A precision instrument?
Chemists and biologists have different expectations when it comes to data, says Derek Lowe
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News
Big business backs White House on climate change
Top US companies including Google, Apple and Coca-Cola pledge at least $140 billion in new low-carbon investments
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Business
Celgene to buy immune-inflammatory specialist Receptos
$7.2bn deal further strengthens Celgene’s position in immunology
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Business
Hikma boosts generics with Roxane buyout
Acquiring the Boehringer Ingelheim subsidiary expands Hikma’s presence in US generics market
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Business
Allergan steps away from generics with sale to Teva
$40.5 billion deal gives Allergan cash to clear debt and fund further acquisitions, and catapults Teva into global pharma top 10
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Business
Biogen to develop gene therapies with AGTC
$1bn deal gives Biogen rights to one clinical candidate and several earlier-stage programmes for rare eye diseases
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Business
Three dead in Chinese petrochemical plant fire
Further four workers injured after leaking oil ignited at Qingyang Petrochemical plant in Gansu province
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Business
US regulator says DuPont’s safety programme ‘failed’
The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration has again proposed to fine DuPont after uncovering ‘repeated’ and ‘serious’ lapses in the company’s worker safety programme
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Opinion
Taking responsibility seriously
Companies have a duty to be proactive when it comes to sustainability
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Business
Chemical firms seek better grasp of biomanufacturing
The search is on for better alternatives to the ‘broken’ way companies harness compound-making organisms
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Business
An unsustainable hypocrisy
Social responsibility should extend through the whole supply chain, not just be a tool to put pressure on feedstock suppliers
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News
US chemical industry lobby group in the hot seat again
Union of Concerned Scientists calls for greater transparency in the political activities of American Chemistry Council and member companies
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Business
US import ban imposed on Indian pharma firm
Concerns over manufacturing processes at Emcure facility prompts Food and Drug Administration to block drug shipments
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Business
US chemical maker Platform expands with Alent purchase
Platform Specialty Products plans to enlarge its scope and reach by acquiring British chemicals firm Alent for $2.1bn
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Business
Celgene backs immunotherapy with Juno collaboration
$1bn investment in 10-year CAR-T cell partnership for cancer treatments
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Business
Thermo Fisher to buy Alfa Aesar chemical supplies
Research chemicals business no longer a strategic fit for owner Johnson Matthey
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Business
Blast kills six at South Korean chemical plant
One further worker injured as tank explodes during welding work
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Feature
Pharma queues up for checkpoint inhibitor collaborations
Combinations of different firms’ drugs seek to reap immuno-oncology’s benefits