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CHEMICALWEEK ASIA: Asia market report: o-xylene Nov 2000.
December 13, 2000... Weaknesses in Asia's dioctyl phthalate and phthalic anhydride markets as well as in its mixed xylenes markets has meant poor business for o-xylene manufacturers. An offer of $425/tonne c&f India was recently made by an Indian phthalic...

PLASTICS NEWS: DuPont unit to boost product prices.
December 13, 2000... DuPont Packaging and Industrial Polymers has raised the price of ethylene copolymer and olefin products by an average of $0.08/lb with effect from 1 Nov 2000. The company blames rising raw material, utilities and transportation costs.

PLASTICS NEWS: Suppliers launch e-commerce site.
December 13, 2000... PolymerAdditives.com LLC is a new business-to-business internet venture formed by Albemarle Corp, GE Specialty Chemicals Inc and Cytec Industries Inc. The partners, who have equal shares in the venture, say that it will provide a faster,...

PLASTICS NEWS: Indspec to raise resorcinol prices.
December 13, 2000... Indspec Chemical Corp is to raise its prices for resorcinol and resorcinol-based resins from 1 Jan 2001. Resorcinol prices are to rise by 10% and resin prices by 8%, but products priced in euros will go up in price by 15%.

PLASTICS NEWS: Huron Technologies to expand.
December 13, 2000... Huron Technologies, the manufacturer and supplier of mould release and other speciality agents to rubber, polyurethane and plastic moulders, is to add 13,000 sq ft to its facility at Leslie, MI. The expansion will be complete in Dec 2000....

PLASTICS NEWS: Latex Foam, DuPont partner.
December 13, 2000... Latex Foam Products Inc of Ansonia, USA has formed an alliance with DuPont Sleep Products of Wilmington, DE. The alliance will focus on product innovation, line expansion and increased merchandising alongside greater attention to...

PLASTICS NEWS: Dow Chemical to increase MDI capacity.
December 13, 2000... Dow Chemical is to increase its MDI capacity at Stade, Germany by 132 M lbs/y in 2001, raising total capacity to 420 M lbs/y. This forms part of the company's continued polymeric MDI initiatives which includes building a plant in the US...

PLASTICS NEWS: Huntsman unveils TPU elastomers for footwear.
December 13, 2000... Huntsman Polyurethanes has developed a new thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) which they claim could dramatically change the high quality footwear market. Traditionally TPUs have not fared well in the footwear market compared with...

PLASTICS NEWS: Goodyear plant continues work despite strike.
December 13, 2000... In spite of a strike at its Houston, TX facility that began on 10 Oct 2000, Goodyear is continuing production. The strike has been called because the company wants to replace 140 employees with lower paid contract workers. The plant,...

HANDELSBLATT WIRTSCHAFTS-UND FINANZZEITUNG: Germ an cartel office allows BASF to take over Takeda's vitamin business.
December 13, 2000... The German cartel authorities have approved BASF's takeover of Takeda's vitamins business. For BASF, the takeover will be a further step in expanding its position as the world's second largest vitamins producer. It will have 30% of...

HANDELSBLATT WIRTSCHAFTS-UND FINANZZEITUNG: Aven tis announces reimbursement for seed merchants.
December 13, 2000... Aventis SA has promised to reimbuse seed merchants for costs arising from the improper use of StarLink GM corn. Solutions will be negotiated individually. StarLink had not been approved for food use but had entered the food chain....

HANDELSBLATT WIRTSCHAFTS-UND FINANZZEITUNG: Baye r invests in polycarbonate production.
December 13, 2000... Bayer AG is looking to become the world's largest PC producer within 5 years. To this end, the company will invest EUR 1 bn, with the focus on Asia/Pacific in particular. Bayer anticipates double-digit growth rates here in the coming...

HANDELSBLATT WIRTSCHAFTS-UND FINANZZEITUNG: K+S acquires Benckiser plant care subsidiary.
December 13, 2000... K+S is buying Gesal, the plant care subsidiary of Reckitt Benckiser. K+S's Compo garden fertilizers division will take over the crop protection chemicals, liquid and garden fertilizers producers at the end of December. K+S acquired...

HANDELSBLATT WIRTSCHAFTS-UND FINANZZEITUNG: Uzin Utz erecting plant in France.
December 13, 2000... Uzin Utz has begun erecting a new production plant in Soissons, France. From autumn 2001, the plant will produce dry mortar products for markets in France, the UK, and Benelux countries. Increased raw material costs meant the company...

HANDELSBLATT WIRTSCHAFTS-UND FINANZZEITUNG: Nova rtis close to launching blockbusters.
December 13, 2000... Novartis AG is confident for the next few years. The company is close to introducing a series of blockbuster drugs (in the drugs sector a blockbuster is a drug with sales of over $1 bn/y). Novartis expects to launch eight brand-new...

THE HINDU: Crisil assigns AA to IFFCO's instrument.
December 13, 2000... The Credit Rating Information Services of India (Crisil) has affirmed AA rating to the Rup 2 bn non-convertible debenture programme of Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Ltd (IFFCO). The rating factors in IFFCO's strong position in...

THE HINDU: Rhone Poulenc gets P1 plus rating.
December 13, 2000... The Credit Rating Information Services of India (Crisil) has reassigned P1 plus rating to the Rup 180 M commercial paper programme of Rhone Poulenc (India) Ltd (Rhone Poulenc). Rhone Poulenc manufactures drugs in anti-histamines, cough...

THE HINDU: Hindalco to buy 10% stake in Bihar Caustic from Grasim.
December 13, 2000... Hindalco Industries (Hindalco) will buy 10% stake in Bihar Caustic and Chemicals (Bihar Caustic) from Grasim Industries (Grasim) at an investment of Rup 10.1 M as part of its restructuring programme. Presently, Hindalco and Grasim hold...

FEDERAL REGISTER: Certain new chemicals; receipt and status information.
December 13, 2000... The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has published a status report (covering the period 23 Oct to 27 Oct 2000) on 33 new chemicals (chemicals not in the TSCA inventory) as required under the Toxic Substances Control Act. ...

FEDERAL REGISTER: Announcement of import restraint limits for certain cotton, wool, man- made fibre, silk blend and other vegetable fibre textiles and textile products produced or...
December 13, 2000... On 5 Dec 2000, the Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements directed the Commissioner of Customs to establish import restraint limits (effective 1 Jan 2001) for certain cotton, wool, man-made fibre, silk blend and other...

FEDERAL REGISTER: Adjustment of import limits for certain cotton and man-made fibre textile products produced or manufactured in Taiwan.
December 13, 2000... On 11 Dec 2000, the Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements directed the Commissioner of Customs to establish import restraint limits (effective 11 Dec 2000) for certain cotton and man-made fibre textile products produced or...

ERNAEHRUNGSDIENST: Fight against locust in Kazakhstan.
December 13, 2000... The Agricultural Ministry of Kazakhstan will spend more than 80% of funds budgetted for pesticides in 2001 on measures to combat locust. The measures require an investment of around DM 32 M and will target around 5 M hectares of...

ECONOMIST: Life sciences: green and dying.
December 13, 2000... Aventis is to sell its agricultural business by end 2001. Sales by Aventis' pharmaceutical division rose 16.2% to EUR 11.8 bn in Jan-Sep 2000, but sales by Aventis CropScience fell 1.4% to EUR 3.5 bn. The sales were adversely...

LA TRIBUNE DESFOSSES: BASF to sell its generic pharmaceuticals activities to Novartis.
December 13, 2000... BASF has agreed to sell its generic pharmaceuticals activities to Novartis for EUR 115 M. BASF employs staff of 224 in its EUR 60 M turnover generics operations which are conducted by six subsidiaries trading in Germany, France, Italy,...

LA TRIBUNE DESFOSSES: Pharmacia and Pfizer antiarthritic soon to get French heath service approval.
December 13, 2000... Pharmacia and Pfizer are to be given French health service reimbursement for prescriptions of their Celebrex antiarthritic drug which was launched in France in Oct 2000. Celebrex is a direct competitor to Merck's Vioxx which was launched...

LA TRIBUNE DESFOSSES: Bayer planning to double polycarbonate production.
December 13, 2000... Bayer has announced that it plans to spend nearly EUR 1 bn to double its polycarbonate production by 2005. Bayer currently has 650,000 tonnes/y Makrolon PC capacity which will be increased to 1.3 M tonnes/y within four or five years. ...

BUSINESS LINE: FIs to discuss Modis' open offer for rubber company.
December 13, 2000... Financial Institutions (FI) are to discuss the open offer announced by Modi brothers (BK Modi and VK Modi) in a meeting to be held in second week of Dec 2000. Modi brothers have decided to buy the shares of Modi Rubber Ltd held by the...

BUSINESS LINE: Indo-Rama revises product prices.
December 13, 2000... Indo-Rama Synthetics (I) Ltd has reduced its fibre prices effective 1 Dec 2000 as follows: Polyester staple fibre from Rup 54.5/kg to Rup 51/kg; partially oriented yarn (140/34) from Rup 65/kg (basic) to Rup 60/kg (basic); fully drawn yarn...

BUSINESS LINE: MOIL pays 20% for the eight year.
December 13, 2000... Manganese Ore (India) Ltd (MOIL), the single largest manganese ore producer in India, has declared a dividend of 20% to the shareholders for 1999-2000, consecutively for the eighth year. The shareholders, Government of India received Rup...

BUSINESS LINE: Vikas WSP plans Rup 1.55 bn issue.
December 13, 2000... Vikas WSP Ltd plans to raise Rup 1.55 bn through preferential allotment of 1.88 M shares at Rup 825/share to part-finance its new 12,600 tonnes/y aqueous based products project being set up at Baroda in Gujarat. The products are used in...

BUSINESS LINE: Credit ratings: Tamil Nadu Petro' NCD downgraded.
December 13, 2000... The Rup 50 M NCD of Tamil Nadu Petroproducts Ltd has been degraded to LA+ from LAA- by Investment and Credit Rating Agency (ICRA). According to ICRA, the changing circumstances are likely to alter the fundamental strength, thereby...

BUSINESS LINE: Zydus Cadila tie-up for diagnostic kits.
December 13, 2000... Zydus Cadila and Department of Biotechnology have entered into an alliance to manufacture and market non-invasive diagnostic kits to detect reproductive hormones like pregnanediol, glucuronide, estrone glucuronide, follicle stimulating...

BUSINESS LINE: Ind-Swift in deal with 8 foreign firms.
December 13, 2000... Ind-Swift Laboratories Ltd (Ind-Swift) has signed exclusive marketing agreements with 8 international pharmaceutical companies for its drugs Camdisartan, Pioglitazone and Atorvastatin in cardiovascular segment and Fexofenadine in...

CHEMICAL WEEK: Terra idles methanol and ammonia plants.
December 13, 2000... Terra Industries is to close its plants at Beaumont, TX, and Blytheville, AR, in Dec because of high natural gas prices. The moves will take 280 M gal/y methanol, 815,000 tons/y ammonia, and 480,000 tons/y urea from the market. The...

CHEMICAL WEEK: Siegfried sells trading business.
December 13, 2000... Siegfried Group has sold its DM 27 M/y German drugs and fine chemicals trading business Synopharm to a management buyout team. Siegfried is to focus on custom production of drug actives and advanced intermediates.

CHEMICAL WEEK: Nufarm bids for distributor.
December 13, 2000... Australian pesticides distributor is bidding for IAMA, a distributor of agricultural products. Nufarm has offered A$ 104 M for the 80.1% share of IAMA it does not own. IAMA confirmed it is to merge with rival agricultural distributor...

CHEMICAL WEEK: Samsung companies discuss PTA plant sale.
December 13, 2000... Samsung Petrochemical (SPC) is in talks to acquire Samsung General Chemical's 350,000 tonnes/y PTA plant at Daesan, Korea. The deal would take SPC's PTA capacity to 1.25 M tonnes/y. SPC would become Korea's largest PTA producer and...

CHEMICAL WEEK: VCI lowers growth forecast again.
December 13, 2000... VCI, Germany's chemical industry association, has lowered its production growth forecast for the second time, to 3-3.5%. In Oct 2000, the VCI reduced its forecast from 4.5% to 4%. It says it is possible that the chemicals cycle has...

CHEMICAL WEEK: Government plans breakup of IPCL.
December 13, 2000... The Indian government is to sell Indian Petrochemicals Corp's (IPCL) ethylene complex at Baroda, Gujarat, to Indian Oil Corp. The government will also look for buyers for a 25% stake in IPCL's other olefins complexes at Nagothane and...

CHEMICAL WEEK: Qenos closes polyethylene and rubber units.
December 13, 2000... Australian company Qenos has closed a 35,000 tonnes/y LDPE plant and is to close a 20,000 tonnes/y styrene butadiene rubber plant at Altona, Australia, in early 2001. Weak demand, feedstock shortages, and poor profitability are cited. ...

CHEMICAL WEEK: Budapest bourse flushes out Gazprom bid for BorsodChem.
December 13, 2000... BorsodChem has postponed its annual shareholders meeting for 2 months after Hungary's stock exchange authority said all the company's shareholders must identify themselves. This follows claims by BorsodChem that Russia's Gazprom has...

CHEMICAL WEEK: Copesul drops out of auction to acquire Copene.
December 13, 2000... Brazilian cracker Copesul has withdrawn from the auction for a 77% stake in the country's Copene cracker. This leaves Dow Latin America and Grupo Ultra subsidiary Oxiteno competing for Copene.

CHEMICAL WEEK: EU seeks import tariffs in FSC dispute with the US.
December 13, 2000... The European Union has asked the World Trade Organization for approval to impose import tariffs on around $4 bn worth of US products including chemicals. The EU says the products receive illegal subsidies via industry-owned operations...

CHEMICAL WEEK: KKR renames Laporte businesses Rockwood specialities.
December 13, 2000... Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) has completed its acquisition of a number of Laporte's speciality chemicals businesses. The activities have been renamed Rockwood Specialties. The Rockwood businesses had combined sales of GBP494 M in...

CHEMICAL WEEK: Resins: Schenectady International buys Brazilian producer.
December 13, 2000... Schenectady has acquired a majority stake in Crios Resinas Sinteticas, a producer of phenolic resins and moulding compounds for foundry, wood, and industrial coatings applications. Crios has sales of $35 M. Schenectady also produces...

CHEMICAL WEEK: Color Resolutions buys Borden's inks.
December 13, 2000... Color Resolutions, a company run by former Borden Chemical managers, has acquired Borden's printing inks business. Color Resolutions has sales of around $40 M/y and supplies water-based inks, UV-curable inks, and other products.

CHEMICAL WEEK: Great Lakes starts antimony trioxide production in Mexico.
December 13, 2000... Great Lakes Chemical has begun production of antimony trioxide at Reynosa, Mexico. The facility replaces ones at Laredo, TX, and Newcastle, UK. Production of speciality-grade antimony trioxide and other antimony derivatives will be...

CHEMICAL WEEK: DuPont executive to head Pemex.
December 13, 2000... Mexico's president has appointed DuPont Mexico director general to run Pemex, and former Union Carbide de Mexico president Ernesto Martins as Energy Minister. The appointments have been well received by local industry experts who see it...

CHEMICAL WEEK: International Paper to divest Arizona Chemical.
December 13, 2000... International Paper is to sell its pine chemicals division Arizona Chemical as part plans to shed $3 bn in assets and focus on its paper businesses. Arizona Chemical supplies pine chemicals to the adhesives, inks, coatings, and...

CHEMICAL WEEK: Teijin acquires monofils business.
December 13, 2000... Teijin is to acquire the monofilaments business of Johns Manville at Spartanburg, SC, and Bobingen, Germany.

CHEMICAL WEEK: Ferro completes fine chems buy.
December 13, 2000... Ferro has completed its acquisition of fine chemicals producer Pfanstiehl Laboratories.

CHEMICAL WEEK: Canadian firm acquires Oltchim.
December 13, 2000... Romania's State Ownership Fund has chosen mining company Exall Resources to take over petrochemicals producer Oltchim. Exall will acquire the state's 53.3% stake. Oltchim produces a range of organic intermediates.

CHEMICAL WEEK: BASF finalizes investment plans.
December 13, 2000... BASF is to spend EUR 400 M on a coatings programme over the next 5 years, with the aim of lifting sales 10%/y from the current EUR 2.2 bn/y. Acquisitions are also planned. The company would like to increase its OEM coatings market...

CHEMICAL WEEK: Pesticides: Syngenta sells products to Makhteshim; cuts jobs.
December 13, 2000... Syngenta is to sell two pesticide lines to Makhteshim-Agan Industries. Makhteshim will make an up-front payment of SFR 140 M for the grass herbicide propaquizafop, and wheat and fruit insecticide tau- fluvalinate. Further payments...

CHEMICAL WEEK: Investment group buys Atofina unit.
December 13, 2000... AtoFina has sold its oleochemicals operation, Fina Oleochemicals, to a group of Belgian private equity investors. The business employs 350; it will be renamed Oleon. Fina Oleochemicals is Europe's third largest producer of...

DAGENS NAERINGSLIV: L'Oreal acquires Norelor.
December 13, 2000... L'Oreal, France, has not only taken over the Norwegian cosmetics company Norelor AS but has also changed the latter's name to L'Oreal Norge AS in compliance with its new international strategy. In 1999 Norelor reported a turnover of NKR...

PRESS RELEASE: Gilead Sciences announces license agreement for investigational cancer compound with Glaxo Wellcome plc.
December 13, 2000... Gilead Sciences Inc (Gilead) has entered into an agreement with Glaxo Group Ltd and Glaxo Wellcome Inc (both wholly owned subsidiaries of Glaxo Wellcome plc) granting Gilead exclusive, worldwide rights to GW1843U89, Glaxo Wellcome's...

PRESS RELEASE: Aventis Pharmaceuticals: Study confirms utility of quinupristin/dalfopristin as alternative therapy to vancomycin for staphylococcal infections in intensive care units.
December 13, 2000... Since 1990s, rates of bacterial resistance among Gram-positive pathogens have steadily increased in hospital intensive care units (ICUs) and widespread vancomycin usage has led to the emergence of vancomycin-resistant organisms. Data...

PRESS RELEASE: Data from Novartis FDA submission for first-line indication for Femara (letrozole tablets) presented at major breast cancer symposium: Results challenge tamoxifen.
December 13, 2000... Novartis Oncology announced clinical findings from two studies presented at the 23rd Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. The findings show Femara (letrozole tablets) to be significantly more effective than tamoxifen in treating...

PRESS RELEASE: Dainippon Screen and Ashland Specialty Chemical forge strategic alliance targeting polymer removal.
December 13, 2000... Dainippon Screen Manufacturing Co Ltd (Dainippon Screen) and Ashland Specialty Chemical Co (Ashland Specialty), a division of Ashland Inc will work jointly to promote chemistries for polymer cleaning on single-wafer processing tools. The...

PRESS RELEASE: Thomas West cuts slurry consumption by 50% with alternative CMP pad.
December 13, 2000... Thomas West Inc introduced The Right Pad 813, a new, highly porous, softer pad for tungsten CMP processes that is technologically superior to conventional CMP pad materials. The pad's unique structure will enable the industry to solve...

PRESS RELEASE: LigoCyte to develop MSU Vaccine Technology.
December 13, 2000... LigoCyte Pharmaceuticals Inc (LigoCyte) announced that it will develop "M Cell" vaccine technology from Montana State University (MSU) for the delivery of anti-infective agents via oral and nasal routes. The company also licensed from...

PRESS RELEASE: Quigley Corp's Cold-Eeze diabetic study results expected in 1Q 2001.
December 13, 2000... The Quigley Corp announced that the results of its summer 2000 study on the safety of Cold-Eeze sugar free tablets usage by diabetics are expected to be released during 1Q 2001. The company also announced plans to formulate additional...

PRESS RELEASE: Amylin Pharmaceuticals submits New Drug Application for Symlin for the treatment of diabetes.
December 13, 2000... Amylin Pharmaceuticals Corp announced the submission of a New Drug Application (NDA) for its lead diabetes drug candidate, Symlin (pramlintide acetate) to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The company is seeking approval to market...

PRESS RELEASE: Schering-Plough announces Claritin syrup receives US marketing approval for children as young as two years old.
December 13, 2000... Schering-Plough Corp announced that Claritin (loratadine) syrup 10 mg/10 ml has received marketing approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the relief of nasal and non-nasal symptoms of seasonal allergic rhinitis and for...

PRESS RELEASE: MacroChem to continue 1 M share stock repurchase programme approved by board of directors.
December 13, 2000... The board of directors of MacroChem Corp (MacroChem) has authorized management to immediately resume exercising a stock repurchase programme initially announced on 1 Sep 1998. The programme permits the repurchase in the open market of up...

PRESS RELEASE: Vical data support development of gene-based cancer therapies.
December 13, 2000... Vical Inc is presenting data supporting conclusions that the excellent safety profile and encouraging efficacy results warrant continued development of the company's gene-based immunotherapies. The conclusions are based on comprehensive...

PRESS RELEASE: Exelixis announces research milestones in Bayer joint venture.
December 13, 2000... Exelixis Inc (Exelixis) announced that Bayer accepted new assays for highthroughput screening from Genoptera LLC, its joint venture with Bayer's crop protection division. The delivery of these assays triggers undisclosed milestone...

PRESS RELEASE: Vet's health brand transferred.
December 13, 2000... NBTY Inc announced that ownership of the Vet's Health brand of pet products formerly part of Feeling Fine has been transferred to Total Nutrition Inc of Farmingdale, NY. NBTY is a leading vertically integrated US manufacturer and...

PRESS RELEASE: Elitra Pharma completes acquisition of Mycota Biosciences.
December 13, 2000... Elitra Pharma Inc (Elitra) announced the closing of its acquisition of Mycota Biosciences Inc (Mycota). Elitra is obligated to issue about 5,950,866 shares of its stock in connection with the acquisition. Mycota will continue its...

PRESS RELEASE: Solutia raises prices on adipic acid and BHMT.
December 13, 2000... Solutia Inc has announced a price increase of $0.03/pound for all grades of adipic acid, and of $0.05/pound for bis-hexamethylene tri-amine (BHMT), one of Solutia's speciality amine products, effective for all shipments on or after 1 Jan...

PRESS RELEASE: Inmet Mining announces Cayeli work stoppage.
December 13, 2000... Inmet Mining Corp announced that contract negotiations with the union representing workers at the Cayeli copper-zinc mine in Turkey have terminated and a work stoppage commenced on 7 Dec 2000. Mining and milling operations were suspended...

PRESS RELEASE: Altair extends research agreement with Heyrovsky Institute.
December 13, 2000... Altair International Inc (Altair) announced that its Alternative Energy Group has completed a first phase of testing Altair nanocrystalline materials and is advancing its services agreement with the J Heyrovsky Institute of physical...

PRESS RELEASE: Gliatech announces results from Adcon-A pilot clinical study.
December 13, 2000... Gliatech Inc announced results from its pilot clinical study, which indicate that Adcon-A Adhesion Control in a Barrier Solution (Adcon solution) provides reductions in post-operative abdominal adhesions in patients with ulcerative colitis....

PRESS RELEASE: Aptagen joins EPA'S Landfill Methane Outreach Program.
December 13, 2000... Aptagen Inc of Herndon, VA, is now a participating member of the Environmental Protection Agency's Landfill Methane Outreach Program (LMOP). Aptagen's enrolment in the programme comes as a result of the company's announcement that it had...

PRESS RELEASE: Methanex completes share buy-back.
December 13, 2000... Methanex Corp completed the repurchase of 12.5 M common shares of the company at an average cost of C$ 7.35/share. The shares were repurchased under a normal course issuer bid that allowed the company to repurchase up to 10% of its public...

PRESS RELEASE: The Medicines Co signs agreement with Innovex.
December 13, 2000... The Medicines Co announced it has signed a commercialisation agreement with Innovex Inc to promote Angiomax (bivalirudin), the company's lead product, pending final FDA approval. Angiomax directly blocks or inhibits the actions of...

PRESS RELEASE: Patent litigation settled between Bayer and Chronimed.
December 13, 2000... Bayer Corp and Chronimed Inc of Minneapolis, MN, jointly announced the settlement of their patent litigation in the Federal District Court in Minneapolis concerning urine test strips. Chronimed filed suit against Bayer on 5 Mar 1999...

PRESS RELEASE: FDA approves contraceptive for use in US.
December 13, 2000... A birth control method that's been available for 10 years in Europe and used by 2 M women is now cleared for use in the US. The Food and Drug Administration just approved Mirena, which will be available in the 1Q 2001. Mirena is an...

PRESS RELEASE: Ricerca LLC to develop Thyreos Corp FTS cancer drug.
December 13, 2000... Ricerca LLC has signed a major agreement to develop Thyreos Corp's new Ras antagonist, FTS that will be used for cancer therapy. As their strategic service firm, Ricerca will make cGMP batches of the compound for safety evaluation and...

PRESS RELEASE: Vysis' PathVysion HER-2 Test selected for breast cancer clinical trials.
December 13, 2000... Vysis Inc announced that its PathVysion HER-2 FISH (Fluorescence in situ Hybridization) DNA Probe test will be used for the determination of HER-2 amplification status in 15,000 women as a major part of the eligibility criteria into two of...

PRESS RELEASE: Evotec OAI: Oxford Asymmetry International plc signs GBP1.8 M discovery library collaboration with Amgen.
December 13, 2000... Oxford Asymmetry International plc (OAI), a part of Evotec BioSystems AG, Hamburg, Germany and one of the world's leading suppliers of sophisticated chemical services, has signed a GBP1.8 M collaborative agreement with Amgen Inc, the world's...

PRESS RELEASE: Skinvisible hires new vice president of sales & marketing.
December 13, 2000... Skinvisible Inc announces that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Skinvisible Pharmaceuticals Inc has hired senior executive, Greg Kearl to head its sales and marketing department. Expansion of Skinvisible's sales & marketing department also...

PRESS RELEASE: Niche products making oral care marketers smile; profits continue upward swing to 2005.
December 13, 2000... MarketResearch.com, the premiere business intelligence marketplace, announced the release of a new study "The US Oral Care Market" from Packaged Facts. Toothpaste sales reached $1.9 bn in 2000, according to the study. Experts project...