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US pharmaceutical company Mylan Inc. today announced plans to build a new corporate headquarters near its current location in the Southpointe Office Park in Washington County, Pennsylvania.

"Mylan's global operations have experienced transformational and phenomenal growth over the last five years, and we expect this growth will only continue in the years to come,” said Mylan executive chairman Robert J. Coury.

Logistics company Lynden International has extended its reach with the opening of a new service centre in Belgium, Lynden International (BE).

The new facility will see the company entering the transport and logistics services market catering for Belgium-based medical, pharmaceutical and other growth industries.

The centre will serve the medical and pharmaceutical industries with temperature-controlled shipping and single-point entry departure in and out of Europe, the company said.

Canada’s Valeant Pharmaceuticals International has agreed to acquire Australia-based iNova, a private pharmaceutical group.

iNova owns, develops and markets a portfolio of prescription and OTC pharmaceutical products in the Asia-Pacific region and South Africa, including therapeutic weight management brands such as Duromine and OTC brands in the cold and cough market such as Difflam and Duro Tuss.

Martin Ashcroft reports on a study of the world’s top 100 sustainable companies, which ranks their performance in terms of how they manage environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.

When I first wrote about sustainability as a business concept (not that long ago, either) I used my opening paragraphs to define the term and its relevance to the bottom line. So much has been said on the subject in the intervening years, however, that we all know what it means now.

India is rapidly becoming the world hub for biotechnology research, with the quality of its scientists, doctors and pharmacology researchers regarded as second to none. Newly restructured Life Technologies is ready to give them the tools they need, enabling them to make rapid and meaningful progress in the areas of basic and medical research.

Perrigo Company announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Paddock Laboratories, Inc., a privately-held, Minneapolis-based manufacturer and marketer of generic pharmaceutical products, for approximately $540 million in cash.

West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc, manufacturer of pharmaceutical packaging and delivery systems, today announced its intention to consolidate selected operations in order to improve operating efficiencies.

The company expects to close its manufacturing facility in Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA, and to downsize operations at its facility in St. Austell, Cornwall, UK.

The Thompson Group of Companies has acquired Applied Instrument Technologies (AIT) from Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation, although financial terms of the purchase were not disclosed. AIT will be organized as a standalone company within The Thompson Group.

AIT manufactures and markets process analytical instruments including Analect FTIR, PIONIR Near-Infrared, MGA Mass Spectrometers, FXi Gas Chromatographs and RPM Raman analyzers, used by refining, petrochemical, chemical, pharmaceutical and steel industries to optimize their production processes.

Looking good, feeling great
A focus on niche markets has proved to be a successful strategy for Prime Product Manufacturing, as Ruari McCallion learned from managing director Kaaiman Schutte.
While many successful businesses around the world have started with a good idea, a garage and hard work, few have grown as fast or as effectively as Prime Product Manufacturing. Currently based in Pelindaba, 25 kilometres from Pretoria, its roots go back to the mid-1990s when it was established as a corporation in 1997 by Mike Rigby and Koos Basson, who remain senior directors. It now occupies a 13,000 square metre factory on the NECSA Eco-Industrial facility—but not for much longer.

Making the grade
Okorusu fluorspar mine in Namibia has weathered all the knocks that life has thrown at it, including the dumping of cheap Chinese products on the western market. Gay Sutton finds out from Mark Dawe how the company has risen to the challenges.
Fluorspar is one of nature’s beautiful minerals. Naturally crystallising into clusters of cubic and more complex geometric shapes, it is found in an enormous variety of colours in locations around the world, and has been used since Greek and Roman times for ornaments, drinking vessels and vases. It has also given its name to fluorescence—the ability to emit visible light when bombarded by radiation of a different frequency such as ultra violet light.