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While still a small part of the packaging giant Rexam's overall business, pharmaceuticals has been instrumental in driving a robust rise in sales and earnings at the company's plastics division in the first half of the year.
Faced with a raft of consolidation in the market for generic pharmaceuticals, Germany's Merck KGaA has entered the fray with an agreement to acquire most of NM Pharma, the Scandinavian generics business of top drugmaker Pfizer.
A new unit operating at Clariant Pharmaceuticals in Germany will boost the company's activities in the emerging field of microreactor technology for the production of pharmaceutical intermediates and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs).
Waters has started shipping its new 'ultra performance liquid chromatography' (UPLC) system AcQuity, first introduced to the laboratory sector at the Pittcon exhibition earlier this year and the winner of the gold award for the best new product.
Chemical giant BASF has increased the price of its styrene polymers Polystyrene (PS), Terluran (ABS) and Luran (SAN) by €250 per metric ton in Europe as of 1 September, blaming a continuing erosion in margins caused by further increases in raw...