Siegfried (Zofingen, Switzerland), a mid-size fine chemicals group, says from March 1 it will replace its two-division structure featuring active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), and final dosage formulations, with a single division structure. The company...
Tata Chemicals (Mumbai) recorded a more than doubling in net profits for its fiscal third quarter ended December 31, 2009 to Rs2.12 billion ($46 million) compared with the year-ago period. Sales decreased 28%, to Rs26.5 billion, however. In the fertilizers...
Carbogen Amcis (Bubendorf, Switzerland), a subsidiary of Dishman Pharmaceuticals and Chemicals (Ahmedabad, India) says it has opened its previously announced new high-potency active pharmaceutical ingredient (HPAPI) facility at Dishman’s Bavla site near...
Fine chemicals group Lonza says its Ebitda for full year 2009 fell 4.8% to SF 658 million ($626 million) on corresponding sales down 8.4% to SF2.7 billion. The company says it experienced lower demand across all of its businesses. Despite...
Jeff Strobel, Site Director, Sigma Aldrich Fine Chemicals (SAFC; Carlsbad, CA) outlines...
Wacker Chemie reported fourth-quarter 2009 Ebitda of €90 million ($127 million), down from €118.7 million for the period one year earlier. Corresponding sales for the quarter were €935 million, down from €998.7 million one year earlier...
Bioengineer Trygve Brautaset, a researcher at Sintef Group (Trondheim, Norway), Scandinavia’s largest independent research organisation, has been awarded NK11 million ($1.9 million) to develop a low-cost process for manufacturing lysine from methanol...
Bioamber (Pomacle, France), a three year old joint venture between DNP Green Technology (Princeton, NJ) and (Agro-industrie Recherches et Développements (ARD; Pomacle), an agricultural technology group, says it has successfully begun operating the...
Merck KGaA has begun construction work at its Darmstadt, Germany site on a plant for the manufacture of inorganic salts. The company is investing some €30 million ($42.8 million) in the plant, which will produce active ingredients and...
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