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Merseyside Coatings has been sold out of administration by BDO to a management team, securing 44 jobs at its Widnes-based coatings business. 11-Jul-2011

Recipharm is to stop sterile manufacturing at its pharmaceuticals site at Bardsley Vale Mills in Ashton, with the loss of 60 of the 285 jobs. 11-Jul-2011

Teva Pharmaceuticals has won permission to extend its warehouse and clean room at Aston Lane North near Runcorn by 53,000 sq ft. 11-Jul-2011

Astellas Pharma is reported to be considering the relocation of its pharmaceuticals headquarters from Staines to a 90,000 sq ft building in Chertsey. 11-Jul-2011

Trygg Pharma of Norway is to acquire Lundbeck's Seal Sands plant on Teesside for £14m, and will bring the site back into production with the creation of an initial 25 jobs. 29-Jun-2011

Carr's Milling Industries is to sell Carrs Fertilisers, the fertiliser supplier with sites in Silloth, Invergordon and Montrose, to Origin Enterprises for £19m. 21-Jun-2011

BWA, the Manchester-based supplier of water treatment chemicals with 85 staff, has been acquired by investment management firm Berwind Corporation for £185m. 21-Jun-2011

Q Chip has raised a further £3.6m from investors to fund the expansion of its Cardiff-based biotechnology business. 14-Jun-2011

Bridgehaugh Dyeworks is to close its dye factory in Selkirk with the loss of 25 jobs, following a fire. 25-May-2011

Abcam has acquired MitoSciences, the US provider of mitochondrial research tools with 24 staff, for £3.7m. 24-May-2011

EKF Diagnostics is to acquire Stanbio Laboratory, the US medical diagnostic devices firm, for £16m. 23-May-2011

Manchester Organics has sold a 51% stake in its Runcorn-based chemicals business to Navin Fluorine International of India for £4.3m. 09-May-2011

Oxford Nanopore Technologies has raised £25m in a share placing to fund improvements to its biotechnology production facilities. 04-May-2011

Manesty, the Merseyside-based pharmaceutical equipment manufacturer with 110 staff, has been acquired by Bosch of Germany for undisclosed terms. 03-May-2011

A-Gas has raised £70m from the sale of a stake to private equity firm LDC, in order to fund the expansion of its Bristol-based industrial gases and chemicals business. 28-Apr-2011

Binding Site, the Birmingham-based biotechnology company, has been acquired by private equity firm Nordic Capital for undisclosed terms. 27-Apr-2011

Lotte Chemical UK has secured £6.7m of government funding to build a PET manufacturing plant at its Wilton site on Teesside, with the creation of 55 jobs. 13-Apr-2011

Bio-Analytical Technologies of India is to create ten jobs at its new office at Manchester Science Parks over the next 18 months. 06-Apr-2011

Acacia Pharma has raised £6.2m from investors to fund clinical trials for its Cambridge-based pharmaceuticals business. 04-Apr-2011

Futura Medical has raised £3m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its Guildford-based pharmaceuticals business. 14-Mar-2011

MSD Biologics, the Billingham-based biotechnology firm with 480 staff, is to be acquired by Fujifilm of Japan, as part of a £300m deal that also includes US-based Diosynth RTP. 03-Mar-2011

SC Johnson is considering plans to close its cleaning products factory in Frimley, Surrey, with the loss of about 200 jobs. 14-Feb-2011

Tennants Consolidated has acquired Tessenderlo Fine Chemicals of Leek for £17m. 08-Feb-2011

CM&D Pharma, the London-based medical gums supplier, has been acquired by Nestle for undisclosed terms. 03-Feb-2011

PRA, the clinical research firm, is said to be in negotiations to set up a 43,000 sq ft office at Green Park in Reading. 24-Jan-2011

Crysalin has secured a £1.5m equity investment to fund the commercial development of its protein structure determination technology at sites in Oxford and London. 05-Jan-2011

Sigma Pharmaceuticals has acquired four new warehouse units totalling 40,910 sq ft at the Watford Business Park. 04-Jan-2011

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