Business news – Page 91

Business
Mis-selling lands J&J with $2.2bn fine

2013-11-11T00:00:00Z

Company found guilty of promoting three drugs for unapproved uses
Business
Japanese chemicals show signs of recovery

2013-11-08T00:00:00Z

Reconstruction after 2011 disaster drives higher demand
Business
Novartis to shut Horsham site

2013-11-06T00:00:00Z

UK research centre closure to result in the loss of 371 jobs as firm consolidates its global R&D base
Business
Peek performance

2013-11-04T00:00:00Z

Company profile: Victrex is taking high-performance polymers to the limit
Business
Air Products looks for alternative helium sources

2013-11-01T00:00:00Z

Concerns over supplies lead to plan to extract the gas from carbon dioxide sinks
Opinion
Natural born chemists

2013-10-31T00:00:00Z

Redesigning nature’s catalysts is tantalising but tricky, says Derek Lowe
Business
Vertex to cut 370 jobs

2013-10-30T00:00:00Z

Imminent competition drives drop in its hepatitis C drug’s performance
Business
DuPont expands Chinese site

2013-10-29T00:00:00Z

Chemical firm’s Shanghai based R&D centre will grow by 17,500 square metres and house 150 more researchers
Business
GSK forms Brazilian sustainable chemistry venture

2013-10-29T00:00:00Z

Agreement with research organisation will launch centre for greener, cleaner drug production
Business
Ineos reprieves Grangemouth petrochemicals

2013-10-25T00:00:00Z

Closure reversed after labour reforms and government backing for ethane terminal agreed
Business
AstraZeneca to close environmental lab and cut 71 jobs

2013-10-25T00:00:00Z

Environmental impact services will be outsourced after Devon lab closes in March 2014
Business
Pharma manufacturing woes dog industry

2013-10-23T00:00:00Z

Regulators are stepping up inspections, and discovering ever more problems
Business
BASF to move pigments production to Asia

2013-10-23T00:00:00Z

Firm will cut 650 jobs, close UK plant and expand in China and Korea
Business
Counterfeit anxiety pills seized in Switzerland

2013-10-21T00:00:00Z

1 million fake tablets were en route from China to Egypt
Business
Worker dies in Dow lab fire

2013-10-18T00:00:00Z

Blaze caused by ignition of trimethylindium
Business
Roche backs biologics boom

2013-10-15T00:00:00Z

Swiss firm to invest heavily in manufacturing for complex biological drugs
Business
Ineos raises axe over Grangemouth petrochemicals

2013-10-14T00:00:00Z

Facility set to close without pension reforms and government help to fund ethane shipping terminal
Business
5000 jobs to be cut at Teva

2013-10-14T00:00:00Z

Generics giant aims to cut costs and reinvest in R&D
Business
Solvay expands surfactants business with Chemlogics buyout

2013-10-09T00:00:00Z

$1.3bn deal brings firm into booming US oil and gas drilling market
Business
GSK to apply for malaria vaccine approval

2013-10-09T00:00:00Z

Infection protection drops over time, but the firm will go ahead with regulatory submission