Business and Industrial News Items from January 26, 2012

Genzyme, a Sanofi company (EURONEXT: SAN and NYSE: SNY), announced today that FDA has approved its manufacturing plant in Framingham, Mass., for the production of Fabrazyme® (agalsidase beta). ...

Celgene Corporation and Avila Therapeutics, Inc., announced a definitive merger agreement under which Celgene Corporation will acquire Avila Therapeutics, Inc. ...

Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, and the ADAP Crisis Task Force (ACTF) announced a number of new initiatives to help struggling state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs continue to provide access to medicines to people living with HIV ...

Celanese Corporation (NYSE: CE), a global technology and specialty materials company and a North American leader in Ethylene Vinyl Acetate (EVA) polymers, announced today that its subsidiary, Celanese EVA Performance Polymers Inc. ...

Dow Global Technologies LLC (DGTL), a subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW), today announced a second license agreement for its Polymeric Flame Retardant technology with Bromine Compounds Ltd., a company within the ICL Industrial Products. ...

Albemarle Corporation successfully completed the latest expansion of its Process Development Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana by installing a new production train for finished polyolefin catalysts and a number of supporting auxiliaries. ...

ANDRITZ HYDRO was awarded a contract from the Egyptian Ministries of Energy and Water Resources for the supply and installation of four bulb turbines, generators, and the electrical and hydromechanical equipment for the rebuild of the Assiut barrage. ...