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DSM Anti-Infectives, the world's largest producer of antibiotics, is planning to expand a manufacturing plant for a key intermediate used in the manufacture of cephalosporins that will make it the largest producer of the compound in the world.
Ireland's position as a hot-spot for inwards investment in pharmaceutical manufacturing is under threat from companies in the Far East and Puerto Rico, according to PharmaChemical Ireland.
The needle-free injector technology underpinning PowderJect, the drug delivery company which shot onto the biotechnology scene in the mid-1990s and was snapped up by Chiron of the US last year, will form the foundation of a new therapeutic vaccines...
Directors at Swiss fine chemicals group Lonza have appointed a former BASF manager as their new chief executive, after major losses led to the resignation of Markus Gemuend earlier this year.