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August 27, 2008
Siegfried Posts Higher Earnings and Revenues
Siegfried (Zofingen, Switzerland) posted a 33% increase in first-half Ebit, to SF28.5 million on sales up 1%, to SF160 million. Earnings benefited from the sale of a pharmaceuticals...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/fine_chemicals_biotech/pharmaceutical_ingredients/13850.html
August 26, 2008
Codexis, Arch Pharmalabs Expand Pharma Manufacturing Deal
Biocatalysis technology company Codexis (Redwood City, CA) says it has expanded its manufacturing collaboration with Indian active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and intermediates...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/fine_chemicals_biotech/pharmaceutical_ingredients/13833.html
August 25, 2008
DSM Biologics to Produce Antibody for MorphoSys
DSM Biologics, a unit of DSM, says it has signed a biopharmaceutical manufacturing agreement with biotech firm MorphoSys (Martinsried, Germany). The deal calls for DSM to develop and...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/fine_chemicals_biotech/pharmaceutical_ingredients/13789.html
August 18, 2008
Monsanto Seeks Buyer for Posilac Growth Hormone
Monsanto says it is seeking a buyer for its bovine milk-boosting drug Posilac recombinant bovine somatotropin (rBST). Monsanto did not disclose whether it has a prospective buyer or...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/fine_chemicals_biotech/pharmaceutical_ingredients/13625.html
August 18, 2008
Monsanto Expects to Grow 2008 Corn Seeds Profits 25%
Monsanto says it expects gross profit for its corn seeds business to grow by 25% this year, and by another 25%-30% in 2009, amid strong demand. Monsanto attributes the anticipated...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/fine_chemicals_biotech/seeds_and_traits/13603.html
August 14, 2008
Four BASF Pesticides Approved in Europe
BASF says European Union (EU) regulators have approved four of its pesticides for commercial use across the EU. The pesticides approved are the fungicides epoxiconazole and...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/fine_chemicals_biotech/agricultural_chemicals/13580.html
August 8, 2008
Dow AgroSciences to Acquire Dairyland Seed
Dow AgroSciences has reached an agreement to acquire Dairyland Seed (West Bend, WI), a seed maker with plant breeding programs in hybrid corn, soybeans and alfalfa, and Bio-Plant...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/fine_chemicals_biotech/seeds_and_traits/13518.html
August 6, 2008
Monsanto Seeks Buyer for Controversial Milk-Boosting Drug
Monsanto disclosed today that it is looking for a buyer for its bovine milk boosting drug Posilac recombinant bovine somatotropin (rBST). Monsanto did not disclose if it was yet in...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/fine_chemicals_biotech/pharmaceutical_ingredients/13486.html
August 4, 2008
BASF Further Invests in Agchems
BASF Crop Protection, a BASF subsidiary, says it will invest more than €150 million ($239 million) to increase capacity in response to expected strong demand for agchems. The...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/fine_chemicals_biotech/agricultural_chemicals/13396.html
August 4, 2008
Europe Rejects Appeal for Use of Azinphos-methyl Pesticide
The European Court of Justice rejected an appeal by pesticides manufacturer Makhteshim-Agan (Airport City, Israel) to overturn a 2006 European Union (EU) ban on the use of the...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/fine_chemicals_biotech/agricultural_chemicals/13435.html
August 4, 2008
BASF Takes Europe to Court Over GM Potato
BASF says it has filed a lawsuit against the European Commission for “unjustifiably delaying” BASF’s application to cultivate its genetically modified (GM) potato in...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/fine_chemicals_biotech/seeds_and_traits/13434.html
July 29, 2008
EU Court Rejects Appeal to Permit Use of Azinphos-methyl Pesticide
The European Court of Justice has rejected an appeal by pesticides manufacturer Makhteshim-Agan (Airport City, Israel) to overturn an EU ban, agreed in 2006, on the use of the...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/fine_chemicals_biotech/agricultural_chemicals/13305.html
July 28, 2008
Pesticide Makers Challenge EPA’s Approach to Endocrine Screening
Pesticide industry group CropLife America says it has filed a petition with EPA requesting “further examination and explanation” of EPA’s risk assessment for testing...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/fine_chemicals_biotech/agricultural_chemicals/13283.html
July 25, 2008
BASF Takes EU to Court Over GM Potato
BASF says it has initiated legal proceedings against the European Commission for the commission’s “failure to act” to approve BASF’s Amflora genetically...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/fine_chemicals_biotech/seeds_and_traits/13213.html
July 21, 2008
EPA Strengthens Restrictions on Five Common Pesticides
EPA has issued new safety requirements for five pesticides, in an effort to reduce human exposure to soil fumigants. The requirements call for growers using methyl bromide...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/fine_chemicals_biotech/agricultural_chemicals/13140.html
July 21, 2008
Monsanto Seals Seed Deal
Monsanto says it has completed its previously announced acquisition of corn seed firm Semillas Cristiani...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/fine_chemicals_biotech/seeds_and_traits/13099.html
July 14, 2008
Lonza to Supply Stem Cell Therapy Drug to Maryland Biotech Firm
Lonza says it has secured a deal with biotech firm Osiris Therapeutics (Columbia, MD) to manufacture what it says could be the world’s first stem cell drug. The agreement calls...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/fine_chemicals_biotech/pharmaceutical_ingredients/12978.html
July 9, 2008
Minakem Buys Penn Specialty Chemicals
Fine chemicals specialist Minakem (Beuvry-La-Foret, France) says it has bought the manufacturing assets of Penn Specialty Chemicals (Memphis, TN), a furan chemistry specialist...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/fine_chemicals_biotech/pharmaceutical_ingredients/12898.html
July 9, 2008
Solvay Raises Offer for Biotech Firm
Solvay says it has increased its offer to acquire biotechnological firm Innogenetics (Gent, Belgium) from €5.75/share in cash, to €6.50/share in cash. The higher offer values...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/fine_chemicals_biotech/pharmaceutical_ingredients/12900.html
July 1, 2008
Lonza Secures Stem Cell Drug Supply Deal, Will Build Plant at Walkersville, MD
Contract fine chemicals firm Lonza (Basel, Switzerland) says it has secured a deal with biotech firm Osiris Therapeutics (Columbia, MD) to manufacture what could be the world’s...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/fine_chemicals_biotech/pharmaceutical_ingredients/12796.html
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