http://www.chemweek.com Chemical Week en-us 2008 Tue, 8 Jul 2008 23:37:13 EDT 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 first stem... http://www.chemweek.com/markets/fine_chemicals_biotech/pharmaceutical_ingredients/12796.html Tue, 1 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT Boehringer Ingelheim says it has agreed to acquire privately owned biopharmaceutical company Actimis Pharmaceuticals (San Diego) for as much as $515 million, depending on the successful... http://www.chemweek.com/markets/fine_chemicals_biotech/pharmaceutical_ingredients/12750.html Mon, 30 Jun 2008 0:00:00 EDT AllessaChemie (Frankfurt), Europe’s largest privately owned toll manufacturer of non-GMP specialty chemicals, told CW at the recently held Chemspec Europe expo in Münich that its... http://www.chemweek.com/markets/fine_chemicals_biotech/pharmaceutical_ingredients/12777.html Mon, 30 Jun 2008 0:00:00 EDT BASF and Monsanto have agreed to work together to market a combination fungicide product, and separately DuPont and Syngenta have agreed to co-develop and supply a pesticide. BASF and Monsanto... http://www.chemweek.com/markets/fine_chemicals_biotech/agricultural_chemicals/12717.html Mon, 30 Jun 2008 0:00:00 EDT The European Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved new rules for regulating crop protection products, which could eliminate dozens of pesticides from the European market, industry groups... http://www.chemweek.com/markets/fine_chemicals_biotech/agricultural_chemicals/12762.html Mon, 30 Jun 2008 0:00:00 EDT Specialty fluorochemicals producer Halocarbon (River Edge; NJ) says it is about to begin selling the fluorinated anesthetic sevoflurane in large volumes in the U.S. following FDA approval... http://www.chemweek.com/markets/fine_chemicals_biotech/pharmaceutical_ingredients/12698.html Fri, 27 Jun 2008 0:00:00 EDT BASF and Monsanto have agreed to work together to market a combination fungicide product and, separately, DuPont and Syngenta have agreed to co-develop and supply a novel pesticide.   BASF... http://www.chemweek.com/markets/fine_chemicals_biotech/agricultural_chemicals/12653.html Tue, 24 Jun 2008 0:00:00 EDT The European Fine Chemicals Group (EFCG; Brussels) says it has signed a memorandum of understanding with the International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council of Europe (IPEC Europe; Brussels) to... http://www.chemweek.com/markets/fine_chemicals_biotech/pharmaceutical_ingredients/12612.html Mon, 23 Jun 2008 0:00:00 EDT Industry body the European Fine Chemicals Group (EFCG; Brussels), in conjunction with its sub-group the Agrochemicals Intermediates Manufacturers in Europe (AIME), at specialty and fine... http://www.chemweek.com/markets/fine_chemicals_biotech/pharmaceutical_ingredients/12561.html Fri, 20 Jun 2008 0:00:00 EDT A decision made today by the Egyptian Parliament brings into question Agrium's position in a $1.4-billion fertilizer complex that the company's majority-owned jv EAgrium (Cairo) is building at... http://www.chemweek.com/markets/fine_chemicals_biotech/agricultural_chemicals/12564.html Fri, 20 Jun 2008 0:00:00 EDT