Archives for November 16, 2005

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Avecia activity at Expo hints at API industry upturn.

By Wai Lang Chu

Specialty chemical company Avecia featured prominently at the recent CPhI Expo in Madrid, announcing investments and activity, which hint at the business of custom synthesis of APIs and advanced intermediates coming back into favour.

EU generics in position for take-off

By  Kirsty Barnes

Catch-up legislation from the EU has swept away the handicap on European generics companies, allowing them to research copycat drugs before patent expiry.

SAFC provides company update at CPhI Expo

By  Wai Lang Chu

Sigma-Aldrich Fine Chemicals (SAFC) Biosciences chose the CPhI Expo in Madrid to announce a series of updates concerning company activity. The custom manufacturing group is currently undergoing construction of a new US facility aimed at manufacturing...

H&R Wasag 3Q figures bode well for 4Q

By  Wai Lang Chu

German specialty chemicals group, H&R Wasag, increased its sales and earnings in the third quarter of this year, helped by its in-house refinery operations that allow it to counter the steady rise in costs arising from crude oil prices.