Entries from India Chemicals Blog tagged with 'API'

Not so fine anymore?

News is slowly trickling in of Indian pharmaceutical and fine chemical companies shutting down facilities that were acquired with great zeal during the 2005-08 overseas acquisition drive. Shasun has decided to shut its facility at Newbie in Scotland and is...

US turmoil hits Orchid

The US financial crisis has taken its toll on Orchid Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals. The active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) manufacturer saw its stock price decline by about 44% since the start of the week after Bear Stearns decided to sell a...

Hikal scores in CRAMS

Hikal is busy consolidating its position in the Indian CRAMs (contract research and manufacturing services) space. It recently secured a long-term contract with Bayer CropScience for supply of active ingredients for crop protection chemicals. And now Hikal plans to invest...

Cashing in on APIs

How big is the opportunity for Indian active pharmaceutical ingredients' (API) manufacturers? Here is an estimate presented by Satish Khanna, group president, API, Lupin Ltd, at the Speciality Chemicals Conclave in Mumbai last week. To develop his estimate, Khanna first...