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Novartis is to shed 2,500 jobs from its global pharmaceuticals business over the next two years, which could affect sites at Horsham in West Sussex and Frimley in Surrey. 17-Dec-2007
Vindon Healthcare, the pharmaceutical services firm, has appointed Wilson Bowden to build a new £3.3m 29,000 sq ft factory and storage facility at the Kingsway Business Park in Rochdale by autumn 2008. 13-Dec-2007
GlaxoSmithKline is to invest £50m in the development of a new neuroscience research centre at Shanghai in China by the end of next year. 13-Dec-2007
The Specials Laboratory is looking to expand the 145-strong workforce at its Northumberland-based pharmaceuticals business with 23 new staff. 07-Dec-2007
Concateno is to relocate its drugs testing business and up to 100 jobs from London and Warrington to Milton Park, near Didcot, by next May. 05-Dec-2007
ClinTec International is planning to set up a new headquarters for its clinical research business in Glasgow, with the creation of 240 jobs over the next three years. 29-Nov-2007
Sanofi Aventis, the pharmaceuticals company, is planning to relocate its Guildford headquarters in 2009 and is seeking a suitable 80,000 sq ft site in the Thames Valley. 28-Nov-2007
Consort Medical is to close the former Bespak pharmaceutical inhalers factory in Milton Keynes with the loss of 165 jobs. 15-Nov-2007
ICI is expected to vacate its 70,000 sq ft global headquarters at 20 Manchester Square in London, with the transfer of up to 175 staff. 14-Nov-2007
Nicholas Piramal India is to shed up to 70 of the 400 jobs at its pharmaceuticals contract manufacturing plant in Morpeth, Northumberland, next year. 13-Nov-2007
Galpharm, the Barnsley-based supplier of non-prescription medicines, is said to be seeking a buyer with a price tag of up to £50m. 12-Nov-2007
One NorthEast is to help fund the development of a new training centre for the chemical industry, with the creation of 25 jobs, and a number of potential sites in Teesside will be considered. 09-Nov-2007
Clariant is to close its leather treatment chemicals factory in Selby, North Yorkshire, by the end of next year, with the loss of 128 jobs. 09-Nov-2007
Ark Therapeutics is to raise £35m in a share placing to fund its drug development programme. 07-Nov-2007
Almac Sciences is looking to double the 25 staff at its production and research site at Elvingston Science Centre in East Lothian, while its Irish parent company is to set up a new US headquarters in Pennsylvania. 06-Nov-2007
NextGen has raised £1.1m in a share placing to fund the commercial development of systems for understanding the role of proteins in diagnosis and drug discovery. 02-Nov-2007
Genus has raised £19m in a share placing, in order to reduce debt and fund the development of its animal genetics business. 02-Nov-2007
Northern Recruitment Group is planning to expand its staffing levels in Middlesbrough from 12 to 40 over the next 18 months, in response to rising demand from the chemical industry. 01-Nov-2007
Norbrook Laboratories is to invest £83m in the expansion of its veterinary pharmaceuticals research and development business in Newry, with the creation of up to 293 jobs by 2013. 31-Oct-2007
Renovo is to relocate its Manchester-based medical research business to a new 25,000 sq ft site at the University of Manchester Incubator Company's core technology facility by the end of the year. 31-Oct-2007
Creative Outsourcing Solutions International is expected to make an announcement about the future of its cosmetics factory in Maesteg within two weeks, prompting concern about the future of 600 jobs. 29-Oct-2007
GlaxoSmithKline has announced plans to shed about 1,000 of the 20,000 jobs at its 23 sites in the UK over the next three years, as part of a global plan to shed at least 5,000 jobs. 25-Oct-2007
AstraZeneca has shed 30 of the 300 jobs in its Cambridge Antibody Technology subsidiary, in order to merge the company with its US-based Medimmune business. 22-Oct-2007
Creative Outsourcing Solutions International is planning to shed up to 92 jobs at its cosmetics factory in Maesteg. 19-Oct-2007
Human Recognition Systems has secured a £2m investment from Capital Values Group to help fund the expansion of its Liverpool-based biometrics business, and the 24 staff are relocating to a new site at Wavertree Technology Park. 18-Oct-2007
AAI Pharma is to expand its drug industry support business in Edinburgh over the next three years, including a new site in the Riccarton area and the creation of up to 47 scientific and administration jobs. 18-Oct-2007
Boehringer Ingelheim is to close its respiratory products factory in Bracknell in 2010, with the loss of 220 jobs. 12-Oct-2007
GrowHow UK, the fertiliser and chemical manufacturer, is to close its Severnside plant near Bristol in 2008, with the loss of 127 jobs. 10-Oct-2007
E-Therapeutics is planning to raise up to £5m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its Tyneside-based drugs development business. 08-Oct-2007
Avecia Biologics is creating about 20 new research and development jobs, following a £1m investment in new laboratory facilities at its site in the Tees Valley. 04-Oct-2007
Mentholatum is to invest £10m in the expansion of its non-prescription medicines and healthcare products factory in East Kilbride, and the 80-strong workforce will grow by about 25%. 04-Oct-2007
NiTech Solutions of East Kilbride has secured £0.8m from PUK Ventures to fund the commercial development of a mixing system that promises to cut production costs in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. 03-Oct-2007
Sinclair Horticulture has won planning consent for a temporary storage depot in Carlisle, securing the future of 80 jobs at its peat extraction business until a permanent site can be found. 02-Oct-2007
The Medical Research Council has unveiled proposals to build a £350m medical research laboratory on a 3.5-acre site being sold by the government near the British Library in London, in partnership with the Wellcome Trust, UCL and Cancer Research UK. 01-Oct-2007
Plant Health Care has raised £5m in a share placing to fund the commercial development of natural products for plant and soil care. 28-Sep-2007
Terra Industries is to close its head office in Teesdale following its merger with Kemira GrowHow, but most of the 42 staff will be offered alternative positions. 26-Sep-2007
Biotec Distribution Wales is to set up a new £1.5m drug development centre in Bridgend by next April, with the creation of 27 jobs. 20-Sep-2007
Dundee University is to invest £6m in a new Division of Molecular Medicine at the College of Life Sciences, including new laboratory facilities and the creation of about 100 jobs. 20-Sep-2007
SABIC UK Petrochemicals has submitted plans to build a new £200m polypropylene plant at Wilton on Teesside, but may still decide to locate the project elsewhere. 18-Sep-2007
Zi Medical of North Wales is to change its name to Vivomedica, following the recent sale of its Zimed infusion business. 17-Sep-2007
AstraZeneca is planning to outsource more of its pharmaceutical manufacturing activities over the next ten years, in order to focus on research and marketing. 17-Sep-2007
Pfizer is to close its pharmaceuticals factory at Sandwich in Kent with the loss of 420 jobs over the next two years, but its research and development centre will remain in the town. 12-Sep-2007
Rohm & Haas is to shed about 40 of the 145 jobs at its chemicals factory in South Tyneside by next year, in order to transfer some of the production to China. 11-Sep-2007
Bee Health is to create up to 50 new jobs at its factory in Bridlington, having won approval to supply Halal vitamins and supplements to Malaysia. 10-Sep-2007
Gilead Pharmaceuticals is to set up a new 43,000 sq ft office at Stockley Park in west London. 10-Sep-2007
Universal Sensors, the Cambridge-based developer of biosensor technology to detect drugs, is planning to expand its workforce from eight to 40 over the next year. 06-Sep-2007
Celanese Acetate is to close its chemicals factory at Little Heath, Coventry, with the loss of 120 jobs, while 50 jobs will be shed at its Derby plant. 04-Sep-2007
Kendle is to relocate its Edinburgh-based clinical research business and 100 staff to a 14,200 sq ft unit at the Technopole science park. 30-Aug-2007
McBride is to shed up to 31 of the 350 jobs at its detergents factory in Barrow in September. 27-Aug-2007
Aesica is planning to create about 40 jobs at a new £10m pharmaceuticals outsourcing factory in Northumberland over the next few years, while 15 new jobs will be created at its North London factory by the end of the year. 27-Aug-2007
Chimatica has secured "significant" funding from NatWest to expand its Liverpool-based pharmaceuticals research outsourcing business. 22-Aug-2007
Q Chip has secured a £2m equity investment to fund the expansion of its Cardiff-based drug delivery and DNA testing technology business. 16-Aug-2007
Co-operative Group is to invest £20m in the development of a prescription drugs manufacturing plant in Tianjin, China, in a joint venture with Tasly Group that will give it greater control over its supply chain. 06-Aug-2007
Hexion Specialty Chemicals is to close its factory in Clayton, Manchester, in 2008 with the loss of up to 28 jobs, in order to transfer production of pressure-sensitive adhesives to the Czech Republic. 01-Aug-2007
AstraZeneca has announced plans to shed a further 4,700 jobs from its pharmaceuticals business, affecting sales and marketing, research and development and business infrastructure. 27-Jul-2007
SLG Beauty is to relocate its cosmetics manufacturing business and 65 staff from Leominster to a 60,000 sq ft factory in Gloucester in December. 20-Jul-2007
Cleveland Potash is to invest £20m at the Boulby potash mine in East Cleveland, in order to extend its life by at least 20 years and secure the future of 1,000 jobs. 04-Jul-2007
The Medical Research Council is considering plans to relocate some of its facilities from Mill Hill in Hertfordshire to a £200m "super centre" or a number of smaller sites in London. 04-Jul-2007
Roar Particles has raised £1.3m from private investors to fund the expansion of its nanotechnology and fingerprint analysis business. 02-Jul-2007
Angel Biotechnology has closed its medical research facility at Cramlington in Northumberland with the loss of an unspecified number of jobs, in order to focus on its Edinburgh site. 29-Jun-2007
Artenius UK is to stop producing terephthalic acid at its Wilton plant, with the loss of 70 of the 340 jobs over the next few months. 29-Jun-2007
Bespak is to shed a "significant" number of the 160 jobs at its site in Milton Keynes, due to lower than expected demand for its new diabetes treatment device. 29-Jun-2007
Wolstenholme International is to close its ink products factory in Darwen by the end of next year with the loss of more than 150 jobs, following its £16m acquisition by Altana of Germany. 22-Jun-2007
Pfizer is planning to transfer 65 jobs from Sandwich, Kent, to its Kalamazoo site in the US, as part of a reorganisation of its animal health research operations. 20-Jun-2007
ICI, the speciality chemicals manufacturer with about 4,000 staff in the UK, has received a £7.2bn takeover approach from Akzo Nobel of the Netherlands. 19-Jun-2007
Aesica is in negotiations to acquire the Abbott pharmaceuticals factory in Queenborough, Kent, with the transfer of up to 470 staff. 15-Jun-2007
Alliance Pharma is shedding 11 jobs at its Chippenham-based pharmaceuticals business, as part of a cost-cutting programme. 15-Jun-2007
Brunner Mond has secured planning permission to build a new £10m sodium bicarbonate plant at Lostock in Northwich by 2009, with the creation of 14 jobs. 14-Jun-2007
West Pharmaceutical Services is to shed up to 90 of the 480 jobs at its four sites in Cornwall by the end of the year, following the loss of a contract at its St Austell factory. 14-Jun-2007
BASF is planning to close its adipodinitrile plant in Seal Sands in 2009, with the loss of 30 jobs. 13-Jun-2007
Swallowfield is to shed up to 150 temporary jobs at its cosmetics factories in Wellington and Bideford, in order to transfer some production to the Czech Republic. 08-Jun-2007
Quintiles is to set up a new £7.5m pharmaceuticals research centre at the Alba Campus in Livingston, with the creation of 150 jobs. 07-Jun-2007
Yule Catto is to close its Holliday Pigments speciality chemicals factory in Hull with the loss of 95 jobs, in order to transfer production to France. 04-Jun-2007
Vickers Laboratories is to expand the distribution facilities at its speciality chemicals business in Leeds with the creation of four jobs, and a new laboratory will be set up. 01-Jun-2007
The University of Edinburgh has announced plans to open a £4.3m Centre for Human & Avian Influenza Research in September, in order to develop new ways to control major flu outbreaks. 28-May-2007
Sanofi Aventis is investing £12m in the expansion of its pharmaceuticals plant in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, securing the future of 500 jobs. 25-May-2007
AstraZeneca is planning to restructure its pharmaceuticals marketing team with the loss of up to 300 jobs, in response to structural changes within the NHS's Strategic Health Authority. 22-May-2007
The Specials Laboratory is to create 15 new jobs at its Northumberland-based pharmaceuticals business, taking the workforce to 150. 21-May-2007
Napp Pharmaceuticals is planning to expand its headquarters at the Cambridge Science Park, with the signing of a prelet on 120,000 sq ft of office space in three adjacent buildings. 17-May-2007
Reckitt Benckiser, the cleaning products manufacturer, is said to be looking to relocate staff from two offices in Slough, having appointed DTZ to find a suitable 200,000 sq ft site in the Thames Valley. 16-May-2007
ULive is planning to raise £20m in a flotation on Aim to fund the commercial development of medical technology from the University of Liverpool. 14-May-2007
United Drug is looking to spend up to £130m on acquisitions, and is particularly interested in the pharmaceuticals packaging sector. 10-May-2007
Scottish Enterprise has announced a tie-up with Alexandria Real Estate Equities for the development of a £250m life sciences research centre next to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, which is expected to create 6,500 jobs. 09-May-2007
Petlon Polymers is to shed 16 jobs at its nylon recycling plant in Lydney, Gloucestershire. 07-May-2007
Intercytex is to raise £12m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its Cambridge-based cell therapy business. 04-May-2007
E-Therapeutics has raised an undisclosed seven-figure sum to fund the expansion of its Tyneside-based drug discovery business, which currently employs 18 staff, and is also considering plans for a flotation. 26-Apr-2007
Dundee Cell Products has secured a six-figure cash injection from the Discovery Investment Fund to develop manufacturing and research facilities for its life sciences business at the Dundee University Incubator. 23-Apr-2007
Goldshield is to reorganise itself into two separate businesses, with one controlling its pharmaceutical interests and the other its Wellbeing division, having dropped plans for a management buy-out. 11-Apr-2007
EctoPharma of Edinburgh has secured a £2m investment from the Braveheart venture capital syndicate and other investors to fund the commercial development of non-toxic pesticides. 05-Apr-2007
BBI is planning to expand its diagnostic test kit manufacturing facilities in Dundee, with the creation of 27 new jobs over the next three years. 04-Apr-2007
Cambridge Antibody Technology is to set up a new 92,000 sq ft research and manufacturing centre at Granta Park in Cambridge by 2008, as part of an expansion programme that will create 300 jobs. 02-Apr-2007
Bayer CropScience is to close its chemicals factory in Widnes within a year, with the loss of 105 jobs, and some of the production will transfer to India. 30-Mar-2007
Alliance Boots is planning to shed 300 of the 7,000 jobs at its Beeston factory in Nottingham over the next 18 months, having lost a contract to supply skincare products to Reckitt Benckiser. 29-Mar-2007
Cognia, the US life sciences company, is to set up a new European operations centre at its site in Edinburgh, with the creation of 75 jobs. 26-Mar-2007
Gentronix has secured a £1.4m investment from NVM Private Equity and existing backers to fund the recruitment of a global sales team for its Manchester-based biotechnology business. 19-Mar-2007
Morvus Technology is to create 54 jobs at a new 14,000 sq ft pharmaceuticals research centre at the National Botanical Garden in Carmarthenshire over the next three years. 16-Mar-2007
Vivalis is to close its Constance Carroll cosmetics factory in Skelmersdale with the loss of 250 jobs, in order to transfer production to China. 16-Mar-2007
BP is looking to sell its ethyl acetate and vinyl acetate monomer operations, including 40 staff at Saltend in Hull, and has also announced plans to restructure its acetic acid business with the transfer of 30 jobs from Middlesex to Saltend. 14-Mar-2007
PZ Cussons is to increase its planned investment in a new personal care products factory in Salford from £15m to £26m, in order to include a research centre and fragrance development facility. 13-Mar-2007
The University of Aberdeen is planning to set up a £2.2m life sciences centre in partnership with Scottish Enterprise Grampian and Aberdeen City Council, with the creation of 200 jobs. 08-Mar-2007
Jeyes is planning to shed up to 70 of the 250 jobs at its bathroom cleaning products factory in Mold, in order to transfer work to the Czech Republic. 08-Mar-2007
Angel Biotechnology has raised £0.6m in a share placing to fund the purchase of equipment for its Northumberland facility. 07-Mar-2007
AstraZeneca has announced plans to invest a further £4.3m in the expansion of its pharmaceuticals testing laboratory in Brixham, Devon, by 2008. 07-Mar-2007
Phytopharm has raised £1.7m in a share placing to strengthen its balance sheet and fund the commercial development of pharmaceutical products. 05-Mar-2007
Neuropharm is planning to raise £20m in a flotation on Aim to fund the development of drugs for disorders of the central nervous system. 05-Mar-2007
UCB is planning to create a further 100 pharmaceutical research jobs at its site in Slough, to add to the existing 805 staff. 02-Mar-2007
Tristel is to start manufacturing chlorine dioxide contamination control products at a new site near its Newmarket headquarters in May, transferring production from a supplier in Kent. 20-Feb-2007
Ciba Specialty Chemicals is planning a multi-million pound investment in new equipment at its factory in Bradford by mid-2008, but will shed up to 60 of the 900 jobs. 15-Feb-2007
BioCity, the Nottingham-based bio-science incubation centre, is planning a £5m expansion project, in order to offer an additional 40,000 sq ft of laboratory space by the end of the year. 07-Feb-2007
Jeyes, the household cleaning products company, is to restructure its Thetford site with the loss of up to 25 of the 350 jobs. 06-Feb-2007
The Scottish Funding Council has announced a £77m alliance between the universities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Strathclyde and St Andrews to collaborate in life sciences research, with the creation of 18 research and 24 support jobs. 02-Feb-2007
Analytical Nano Technologies has announced a flotation on the Plus market to fund the commercial development of technology for the detection of chemical leaks. 02-Feb-2007
Alliance Boots is to move into the Chinese pharmaceuticals distribution market through a joint venture with Guangzhou Pharmaceuticals Corporation. 30-Jan-2007
ClinPhone is planning to expand the 452-strong workforce at its Nottingham-based clinical trials technology business with 80 additional staff over the next 12 months. 25-Jan-2007
Alliance Boots is to set up a £3m Boots Centre for Innovation at Swansea University's Institute for Life Science, in order to help researchers and entrepreneurs develop new pharmaceutical products. 23-Jan-2007
Pfizer is to shed 10,000 jobs in its global pharmaceuticals business, including about 250 of the 6,000-strong UK workforce at sites in Kent and Surrey. 23-Jan-2007
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals is considering plans to relocate its UK headquarters from Maidenhead to a 100,000 sq ft site at Green Park in Reading. 22-Jan-2007
Cellartis of Sweden is planning to set up a £9m biotechnology research centre in Dundee, with the creation of up to 75 jobs. 19-Jan-2007
Huntsman is to invest £11m in the expansion of its adhesives factory in Duxford, Cambridgeshire, with the creation of 15 new jobs. 19-Jan-2007
Creative Outsourcing Solutions International is to expand its cosmetics factory in Maesteg over the next three years, with the creation of 300 jobs, but 240 jobs will be lost at its site in Littlehampton. 18-Jan-2007
Ineos is to close the high density polyethylene plant at its site in Grangemouth at the end of the year, and the 35 staff will be redeployed. 15-Jan-2007
The University of Edinburgh has secured a £24m Scottish Executive grant to set up a £59m stem cell science and regenerative medicine centre, housing up to 220 academic researchers. 12-Jan-2007
Protherics has raised £38m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its biotechnology business, including the acquisition of US-based MacroMed and licensing deals with Glenveigh Pharmaceuticals and Advanced In Vitro Cell Technologies. 05-Jan-2007
Almac Pharma Services is to create 60 new jobs at its site in Craigavon, following a £5.4m investment in new pharmaceutical research facilities. 04-Jan-2007
Evolutec, the Reading-based biotechnology company, has put itself up for sale. 04-Jan-2007
GeneMedix has received a £32m cash injection from Reliance Life Sciences to secure the future of its Newmarket-based drugs development business. 03-Jan-2007
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