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Granville Oil & Chemicals has secured £1m of funding from the Co-operative Bank to acquire its 34,000 sq ft factory building in Rotherham, and has also acquired the UK manufacturing rights for the Gunk brand. 21-Dec-2009 GlaxoSmithKline has confirmed that its Barnard Castle site is one of three potential locations for a new £300m biopharmaceuticals factory, which could create hundreds of jobs. 21-Dec-2009 TrichoTech is planning to expand the workforce at its Cardiff-based drug and alcohol testing business from 50 to 60 early next year. 17-Dec-2009 PPG is to shed 83 jobs at its paints and coatings business in Birstall and Morley by the end of the year. 15-Dec-2009 Pentagon Chemicals has secured a £2m investment from Maven Capital Partners to fund the expansion of its chemicals business, which has 160 staff in Cheshire and Cumbria. 14-Dec-2009 Circassia of Oxford has raised £15m to fund the development of allergy treatments. 14-Dec-2009 Scottish Enterprise has announced government funding of £24m for the development of a "bioincubator" in Edinburgh's BioQuarter, in order to create up to 200 jobs in the biotechnology sector over the next five years. 10-Dec-2009 Verona Pharma is to raise £3m in a share placing to fund the commercial development of a new treatment for asthma. 09-Dec-2009 Reckitt Benckiser is to relocate 90 office-based jobs from Hull to Slough over the next few months. 07-Dec-2009 Phytopharm is to raise £25m in a share placing to fund the commercial development of its plant-based pharmaceutical products. 07-Dec-2009 Exwold is planning to set up a new 8,000 sq ft crop protection chemicals plant on the Queens Meadow Business Park in Hartlepool, and also hopes to open a factory in Brazil. 03-Dec-2009 AstraZeneca is planning to transfer production of active pharmaceutical ingredients from the UK to China over the next few years, which could lead to job losses at a plant near Bristol. 30-Nov-2009 Ineos Chlor Vinyls has announced plans for a multi-million pound investment in the expansion of its chloromethane production plant in Runcorn over the next five years. 30-Nov-2009 Ashfield In2Focus is to invest £7m in the expansion of the Ashby-based headquarters of its pharmaceutical training business, with the creation of up to 50 jobs, including the relocation of its Universal Procon division from Slough. 25-Nov-2009 Clariant, the Swiss chemicals company, has announced plans to shed a further 570 jobs and close plants in Pontypridd, France and Mexico. 23-Nov-2009 Epistem is to raise £2.9m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its Manchester-based biotechnology business. 23-Nov-2009 Plethora Solutions is to raise £1.6m in a share placing to fund the creation of a new subsidiary to supply therapeutic products to urology clinics. 19-Nov-2009 Bristol-Myers Squibb is investing a further £3.5m in the expansion of its pharmaceuticals research and development centre in Wirral, in order to create new laboratories and secure 100 jobs. 18-Nov-2009 Conformetrix, the Manchester-based drug development company, has secured an undisclosed equity investment from the Aquarius Origin Fund and aims to expand its workforce from five to 15 by 2011. 18-Nov-2009 Futura Medical is to raise £1.5m in a share placing to provide additional working capital and to evaluate research leads for its Guildford-based pharmaceuticals business. 16-Nov-2009 GlaxoSmithKline is planning to consolidate production of dermatology products at sites in Barnard Castle and Canada, but four recently-acquired Stiefel sites in the US and Ireland could close. 16-Nov-2009 Quay Pharma is to relocate from Bromborough to a new £2.7m pharmaceuticals research and development centre at Deeside Industrial Park in Flintshire in January, with the creation of 54 jobs. 11-Nov-2009 Pfizer is to close its pharmaceutical research departments in Slough and Gosport next year, with the loss of 90 jobs. 11-Nov-2009 Catalent Pharma Solutions is to shed 275 jobs at its pharmaceutical capsules factory in Swindon over the next two years. 10-Nov-2009 One North East has announced that INEOS Bio is conducting a £3.5m feasibility study into the development of a waste-fuelled bioethanol plant at Seal Sands in the Tees Valley. 09-Nov-2009 E-Therapeutics has raised £2.5m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its drug discovery business. 04-Nov-2009 Phoenix Chemicals has secured a Scottish Government grant to reopen the former Shasun pharmaceutical chemicals plant in Annan, as part of a £4m investment that will create 58 jobs over the next three years. 02-Nov-2009 Brunner Mond is planning to build a sustainable energy plant fuelled by biomass and pre-treated waste at its chemicals site in Lostock, Cheshire, in partnership with Eon. 29-Oct-2009 SCM Pharma is looking to expand the workforce at its Northumberland-based pharmaceuticals production business from 43 to almost 70 next year. 27-Oct-2009 Duke Street Capital is looking to sell Simple, the Solihull-based supplier of sensitive skin products with 55 staff, for more than £250m. 26-Oct-2009 Forensic Science Service has confirmed plans to close three laboratories in Chorley, Chepstow and Birmingham, with the loss of up to 700 jobs. 26-Oct-2009 Avacta Group is to raise £2m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its York-based pharmaceuticals and diagnostic tests business. 26-Oct-2009 Ranbaxy Laboratories is to relocate the London headquarters of its pharmaceuticals business from Ealing to a 5,000 sq ft office at Chiswick Park. 22-Oct-2009 Retroscreen Virology has secured £2.6m of venture capital funding to increase capacity at its London-based vaccines research business. 15-Oct-2009 GlaxoSmithKline is to provide land and facilities worth £11m to a joint venture with the government and Wellcome Trust to build a new £37m bioscience campus in Stevenage, which could create up to 1,500 jobs. 14-Oct-2009 Oncimmune of Nottingham is seeking £12m of funding for the commercial development of its cancer detection technology. 12-Oct-2009 Ineos Compounds is to close its PVC compounds operation in Runcorn with the loss of an unspecified number of jobs, in order to transfer production to Newton Aycliffe. 12-Oct-2009 New Horizons Global is planning to expand the 18-strong workforce at its biotechnology operation in Knowsley to 60 over the next year, following a £1.4m investment in the production of omega-3 oil. 08-Oct-2009 Third Coast Chemicals of the US is to seek government support to invest £50m in the overhaul of a former ICI chemicals plant at Wilton on Teesside, in order to produce diethylene and triethylene glycol. 05-Oct-2009 Quintiles Transnational Corp is creating a further 150 jobs at its new 115,000 sq ft biopharmaceutical services site in Livingston. 05-Oct-2009 Almac Laboratories has secured planning permission for the multi-million pound expansion of its pharmaceutical operations in Portadown, which will lead to the creation of up to 500 jobs. 28-Sep-2009 LifeScan has secured a £2m Scottish Government grant to produce a new blood glucose monitoring system in Inverness, safeguarding the future of 223 jobs. 28-Sep-2009 Provexis is in discussions to raise £5m from investors to fund the expansion of its biotechnology operations in Windsor and Liverpool. 24-Sep-2009 Cancer Research UK is providing £8m for the development of a drug discovery centre in Manchester, while £8m will go to the Beatson Institute in Glasgow and £5m to Oxford and Southampton universities. 23-Sep-2009 The University of Liverpool has submitted plans to build a £90m cancer research centre in Crown Street by 2011. 22-Sep-2009 Martindale Pharmaceuticals has been put up for sale by US parent Cardinal Health, with an estimated price tag of £150m. 21-Sep-2009 Renovo is planning to shed up to one third of the 180 jobs at its Manchester-based biotechnology business, in order to focus on the development of anti-scarring drugs. 21-Sep-2009 Eli Lilly is planning to shed 5,500 jobs from its global pharmaceuticals workforce, which could affect some of the 1,600 staff in Windlesham, Speke and Basingstoke. 15-Sep-2009 Randox Laboratories is to create a further 34 jobs at its biotechnology business in County Antrim. 14-Sep-2009 International Flavours & Fragrances is planning to shed up to 50 of the 300 jobs at its chemical ingredients factory in Haverhill. 14-Sep-2009 Jotun Paints (Europe) is planning a multi-million pound expansion of its paints factory in Flixborough, with the creation of an unspecified number of jobs. 10-Sep-2009 Myconostica has raised a further £1.7m of venture capital to fund the expansion of its Manchester-based medical diagnostics business. 09-Sep-2009 Dechra is to invest £1m in the expansion of its animal medicines site in Talke, North Staffordshire, including a new warehouse on the Jamage Industrial Estate. 08-Sep-2009 Lab901 has raised a further £2.4m from investors to fund the expansion of its Edinburgh-based laboratory testing systems business. 07-Sep-2009 The University of Liverpool has unveiled plans to build a new £25m science laboratory on Chatham Street North by September 2011. 02-Sep-2009 ProStrakan has sold the US distribution rights for its Fortigel testosterone gel to Endo Pharmaceuticals for £30m. 27-Aug-2009 Synexus of Chorley has acquired CLCC, the operator of three clinical trial centres in Poland. 27-Aug-2009 Nova Laboratories is to set up a new £2m factory to manufacture bone cement for hip replacements near its existing site in Leicestershire by December, with the creation of up to 60 jobs. 19-Aug-2009 Aptuit is to shed an unspecified number of the 200 jobs at its pharmaceuticals research and packaging facility on the Deeside industrial park. 18-Aug-2009 North Lincolnshire Council is supporting John Carson Innovations in the development of a new Limelite fertiliser pellets factory in Bonby, with the creation of 24 jobs. 17-Aug-2009 AstraZeneca is planning to relocate its London headquarters from Mayfair to a 60,000 sq ft office in Paddington next year. 04-Aug-2009 The Institute for Animal Health has secured a £100m government grant to build new laboratories at its site in Pirbright, Surrey. 04-Aug-2009 Aesica is to invest £5m in the expansion of its pharmaceuticals research centre in Cramlington over the next three years, and is now looking to recruit up to 30 scientists. 04-Aug-2009 Reckitt Benckiser is to invest £13m in new health care manufacturing facilities at its site in Hull, with the creation of 60 jobs. 04-Aug-2009 BASF is to close the Ciba chemicals headquarters in Macclesfield next year, with the loss of about 100 jobs, in order to transfer the work to its site in Cheadle Hulme. 21-Jul-2009 The Department for Business Innovation & Skills is to invest £12m in a new industrial biotechnology demonstrator facility at Wilton on Teesside by next year, with the creation of up to 40 jobs. 20-Jul-2009 Swansea University has secured funding of £30m to expand its medical research institute by 2011, with the creation of up to 650 jobs. 20-Jul-2009 Animalcare is looking to spend up to £10m on acquisitions to expand its North Yorkshire-based pet drugs business. 13-Jul-2009 Randox Laboratories has announced plans for a £9.2m investment in research and development at its Northern Ireland-based chemical diagnostics business, including a £3.1m grant from Invest NI. 13-Jul-2009 Dow Chemical and Croda International are to close their ethylene oxide and glycol operations at Wilton on Teesside next January, with the loss of up to 170 jobs. 09-Jul-2009 Ciba is to shed about 150 of the 830 jobs at its speciality chemicals plant in Bradford, following its acquisition by BASF, in order to transfer research work to Germany. 08-Jul-2009 Sanofi Aventis is said to be seeking a buyer for its pharmaceuticals research and development site in Alnwick, Northumberland, which has 170 staff. 02-Jul-2009 Croda has confirmed plans to shed about 100 jobs at the Wilton Centre on Teesside, in order to transfer its chemicals research, finance, sales and administration work to sites in Hull, Widnes and Snaith. 01-Jul-2009 The Scottish Government is to provide funding of £3m to enable life sciences companies to employ 100 apprentices, and the initiative will be implemented by Skills Development Scotland. 30-Jun-2009 Eisai has opened its new £100m pharmaceuticals manufacturing and research facility in Hatfield, which will create 250 research jobs. 29-Jun-2009 Wellcome Trust has announced funding of £41m for four new medical engineering centres of excellence at Imperial College London, King's College London, the University of Oxford and the University of Leeds. 25-Jun-2009 Dow Chemical is said to be in negotiations to sell its ethylene oxide plant on Teesside to Third Coast Chemicals of the US. 25-Jun-2009 Chroma Therapeutics of Oxfordshire has agreed a deal worth up to £750m with GlaxoSmithKline to develop new drugs for inflammatory disorders. 25-Jun-2009 Brotherton Speciality Products is to invest £4m in the expansion of its sulphites production facility in Wakefield. 23-Jun-2009 ICON and the Central Manchester University Hospitals Foundation Trust are to set up a pharmaceuticals research facility at the Manchester Royal Infirmary by 2012. 18-Jun-2009 Allergy Therapeutics is to raise up to £22m in a share placing, in order to invest in European sales and marketing for its pharmaceuticals business. 15-Jun-2009 ICI is considering locations in Bracknell, Reading and Slough for a new 140,000 sq ft headquarters for its paint manufacturing business. 08-Jun-2009 Proximagen Neuroscience has raised £50m in a share placing, in order to fund the expansion of its London-based drug development business. 08-Jun-2009 Ineos has secured a £7.6m Scottish Government grant to go towards a £65m investment at the Grangemouth refinery and petrochemicals complex, which will help to secure more than 500 jobs. 04-Jun-2009 Reckitt Benckiser is to relocate about 100 sales, marketing and finance jobs from Swindon to its head office in Slough. 28-May-2009 MacDermid is creating up to 100 jobs at its new £15m chemicals research and development laboratory in Small Heath, Birmingham. 25-May-2009 University of Central Lancashire has unveiled plans to invest £12m in the expansion of its forensic and pharmaceutical sciences facility in Preston. 20-May-2009 Alliance Boots is to reorganise its pharmaceutical wholesaling division with the loss of up to 1,500 jobs, including 200 in the UK. 19-May-2009 AstraZeneca has awarded a £45m contract to Mott MacDonald to build a four-storey research centre at its Alderley Park site in Cheshire. 18-May-2009 Celanese is to shed about 100 of the 525 jobs at its chemicals plant in Derby. 14-May-2009 PharmaNet, the pharmaceuticals company, is said to be seeking a suitable 20,000 sq ft office in the High Wycombe area. 11-May-2009 The Specials Laboratory is planning to expand the 135-strong workforce at its pharmaceuticals business in Prudhoe, Northumberland, to 150 over the next year. 11-May-2009 Forensic Science Service is considering plans to close its laboratory in Chepstow with the loss of up to 200 jobs, and other sites could also be affected as part of the competitive tendering process for forensic services. 11-May-2009 Semiramis Genetics is to set up a new headquarters for its life sciences business at the Manchester Science Park in June. 07-May-2009 SABIC is planning to close its thermoplastics plant in Grangemouth with the loss of 95 jobs. 30-Apr-2009 Vernalis is raising £24m in a share placing to fund clinical trials for its pharmaceuticals operations in Cambridge and Wokingham. 30-Apr-2009 Elementis has confirmed plans to close its chromium plant in Stockton in June, with the loss of 138 jobs. 30-Apr-2009 Croda International is to close its speciality chemicals plant at Bromborough on Merseyside, with the loss of 115 jobs. 30-Apr-2009 Akzo Nobel is to shed up to 40 of the 1,000 jobs at its International Paints factory in Gateshead. 27-Apr-2009 Morgan Ashurst has won a £12m contract from the National Institute for Biological Standards & Control to build a stem cell bank and influenza resource centre at South Mimms in Hertfordshire by December, and the site will employ 35 scientists. 27-Apr-2009 GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer are to merge their HIV drugs operations into a new jointly-controlled company that will be based in London and employ several hundred staff. 20-Apr-2009 Elementis Chromium is to announce the outcome of the strategic review of its Urlay Nook chemicals plant on Teesside in June, which could lead to the loss of up to 120 jobs. 20-Apr-2009 Piramal Healthcare is to close its pharmaceutical chemicals plant in Huddersfield next month with the loss of about 80 jobs, in order to transfer production to other sites in the UK and India. 13-Apr-2009 Sygnature Chemical Services is planning to double the size of its pharmaceuticals research business at the BioCity centre in Nottingham over the next two years, and 15 chemists will be added to the 35-strong workforce. 09-Apr-2009 Akzo Nobel has confirmed plans to transfer some of its paint production from Felling to Prudhoe in Northumberland, with the loss of 18 jobs. 06-Apr-2009 Genzyme is to expand the 100-strong workforce at its Oxford-based biotechnology business with ten new jobs, having agreed a strategic partnership with Bayer. 02-Apr-2009 Diurnal is to relocate its drug development business from Sheffield to Cardiff, having received a £0.25m investment from Finance Wales, Fusion IP and the Viking Fund. 02-Apr-2009 The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) has unveiled plans to make the Science & Innovation Campus at Daresbury into a new nationwide chemistry hub, with a £15m investment from the North West Regional Development Agency. 31-Mar-2009 BioVex, the biotechnology company with offices in Oxford and the US, has raised a further £30m of capital to expand its business. 30-Mar-2009 One NorthEast has unveiled plans for a £1.8m investment in the health care and life sciences sector, with the creation of 58 jobs at NHS Innovations North. 26-Mar-2009 Deb is to shed 11 of the 95 jobs at its skincare and cleaning products factory in Belper. 26-Mar-2009 Industrial Copolymers, the Lancashire-based resins and polymers manufacturer, is to change its name to Incorez, following the acquisition of its parent company Iotech Group by Sika. 26-Mar-2009 UniChem is to shed up to 225 of the 5,000 jobs in its health and beauty products business, affecting sites in Exeter, Chessington, South Normanton and elsewhere. 26-Mar-2009 Rohm & Haas is to close its emulsions manufacturing plant in Heckmondwike in July, with the loss of up to 43 jobs. 24-Mar-2009 AstraZeneca has appointed CB Richard Ellis to find a suitable 60,000 sq ft site for a new headquarters in London, and is expected to relocate from Stanhope Gate by 2010. 16-Mar-2009 One NorthEast has assisted Nanjing Chuanbo Biotech of China in setting up a European headquarters for its drug development business at the International Business Centre in Gateshead, and a number of new jobs will be created. 12-Mar-2009 The Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) is expected to announce plans for the development of a £13m Genome Analysis Centre at the Norwich Research Park, which could create up to 750 science jobs. 12-Mar-2009 Arkema of France is to close its polymer additives office in Solihull by the end of the year with the loss of 15 jobs, but its 11-strong UK sales team will be retained. 09-Mar-2009 Penn Pharma is to invest £12m in the expansion of its biosciences operation in Tredegar, with the creation of 133 jobs. 05-Mar-2009 Baxenden Chemicals is to shed up to 55 of the 90 jobs at its specialist coatings and paints factory in Droitwich. 05-Mar-2009 Epistem Holdings of Manchester has agreed a multi-million-pound deal with Novartis of Switzerland to collaborate in the identification and development of new drug targets and therapeutics. 03-Mar-2009 Bostik is planning to shed up to 29 of the 175 jobs at its sealants factory in Leicester, and a further 92 jobs could be lost at sites in Stafford and Chester. 26-Feb-2009 Intercytex is seeking a buyer for its Manchester-based regenerative medicines business, having started a strategic review. 24-Feb-2009 Clariant has confirmed plans to close its speciality chemicals plant in Horsforth, West Yorkshire, with the loss of 160 jobs, and is seeking a suitable site nearby to relocate the remaining 80 staff. 23-Feb-2009 DxS is planning to expand the 60-strong workforce at its Manchester-based biotechnology business with 20 additional scientists and support staff this year. 23-Feb-2009 Medisize is to close its medical devices factory in Sunderland in April, in order to transfer production to continental Europe. 23-Feb-2009 One NorthEast has unveiled plans for a £1m investment in a new biochemical engineering laboratory at Newcastle University's School of Chemical Engineering. 23-Feb-2009 Phytopharm is to shed 15 of the 40 jobs at its biotechnology research business in Godmanchester. 19-Feb-2009 Oxford Instruments is to shed about 30 jobs in its Molecular Biotools division, following a fall in demand from pharmaceutical companies. 16-Feb-2009 Schering-Plough is to invest about £20m in the expansion of its drug discovery research centre in Newhouse, Lanarkshire. 11-Feb-2009 Almac Group is to increase the 1,559-strong workforce at its pharmaceuticals research and development business in Northern Ireland with the recruitment of 54 additional staff over the next few months. 09-Feb-2009 Dow is to shed up to 30 of the 90 jobs at its chemicals plant in Billingham, as part of a plan to cut 5,000 jobs from its 46,000-strong global workforce. 05-Feb-2009 DuPont is to shed up to 35 of the 100 jobs at its chemicals plant in Whessoe Road, Darlington. 02-Feb-2009 Jeyes is to create 50 jobs at its cleaning products factory in Thetford over the next three months, following the transfer of production from its Powder & Liquid Products site in Consett. 02-Feb-2009 AstraZeneca has unveiled plans to shed a further 6,000 of the 65,000 jobs in its global pharmaceuticals business. 02-Feb-2009 PZ Cussons is to close its fragrance chemicals plant in Ellesmere Port over the next few months, in order to relocate production and the 25 jobs to its new £26m site in Manchester. 29-Jan-2009 Brunner Mond is to invest £18m at its Cheshire-based soda ash manufacturing operations, in order to cut energy costs and improve environmental performance. 29-Jan-2009 Intercytex is planning to shed up to 50% of the 76 jobs at its regenerative medicine operations in Manchester and the US. 27-Jan-2009 Huntsman Pigments is to close its titanium dioxide chemicals plant in Grimsby within two months, with the loss of more than 200 jobs. 26-Jan-2009 Croda International is to relocate its chemicals distribution business from Doncaster to an 83,500 sq ft unit being built at Capitol Park in Thorne. 23-Jan-2009 Scottish Enterprise and the University of Edinburgh have announced funding of £12m to help commercialise the research work at the College of Medicine and enable new spin-off companies to locate at the Edinburgh BioQuarter project. 21-Jan-2009 Johnson Matthey is to shed about 100 jobs at its chemicals plant in Royston, due to falling demand for emission control technology. 20-Jan-2009 PolymerLatex is to stop production at its latex plant in Stoke Prior, Bromsgrove, with the loss of most of the 31 jobs. 16-Jan-2009 Invista Textiles is to close its nylon and polymer intermediaries plant at Wilton on Teesside, with the loss of up to 300 jobs. 15-Jan-2009 Pfizer is to shed up to 240 of the 3,500 jobs at its pharmaceuticals research centre in Sandwich, Kent. 15-Jan-2009 MacDermid Autotype has shed up to 40 jobs at its chemical film coatings business in Wantage, Oxfordshire. 12-Jan-2009
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