http://www.chemweek.com Chemical Week en-us 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:45:26 EST Dankis: No sign of improvement. Perstorp says it will lay off 105 employees in Sweden, 10.5% of its workforce in the country. The company blames a “lack of orders of certain specialty... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/sweden/15508.html Mon, 24 Nov 2008 0:00:00 EST Perstorp says it plans to lay off 105 employees in Sweden because of falling demand and lack of business orders for certain specialty chemical products. Of these 105 employees, 68 work in... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/sweden/15465.html Thu, 20 Nov 2008 0:00:00 EST Pharmaceutical major AstraZeneca says it will permanently close its three plants located at Destelbergen, Belgium; Porrino, Spain; and Umea, Sweden and the company also plans to cut jobs at its... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/sweden/15466.html Thu, 20 Nov 2008 0:00:00 EST Inver (Bologna), an industrial liquid and powder coatings firm, has acquired the European powder coatings business of AB Wilh. Becker... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/sweden/14861.html Mon, 20 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT DSM Anti-Infectives, a DSM subsidiary, will close a clavulanic acid production site at Strängnäs, Sweden. Clavulanic acid is used... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/sweden/14599.html Mon, 6 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT DSM’s Anti-Infectives business says it will close a clavulanic acid production site at Strängnäs, Sweden. The site mainly produces clavulanic acid, which is used in the... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/sweden/14562.html Thu, 2 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT The European Fine Chemicals Group (EFCG; Brussels) and the International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council of Europe (IPEC Europe; Brussels) say they have developed a proposal for a... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/sweden/14536.html Tue, 30 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT Lonza says it has entered into a co-exclusive global manufacturing, sales and distribution agreement with biopharmaceutical company Crucell (Leiden, Netherlands) for Permexcis, a cell culture... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/sweden/14412.html Thu, 25 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT The publication last week of a list of more than 200 chemicals identified as being substances of very high concern (SVHC) by environmental group ChemSec (Gothenburg, Sweden) has sent a shockwave... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/sweden/14323.html Mon, 22 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT Catalyst and technology supplier Haldor Topsøe says it has agreed to participate with six other companies to build the first plant that will produce the fuel dimethyl ether (DME) from... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/sweden/14326.html Mon, 22 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT