Bayer breaks ground on $150m building to make biologic therapies
The building comes just two years after Bayer built a $100 million quality assurance building on its 46-acre campus in West Berkeley.
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Bayer HealthCare in Berkeley cuts 227 jobs, citing need to make ‘efficiencies’
The West Berkeley company, one of the city's largest employers, says the move is a result of needing to make efficiencies as it transitions its customers to next-generation hemophilia drugs.
Remodeled space in the Berkeley Public Library attracts people for its informal, comfortable feel
Want to relax on a comfortable chair or couch and browse the internet? Need a laptop to use? A new space in the library's Central Branch provides that, and more.
Bayer HealthCare opens new $100M testing facility in West Berkeley
By building state of the art labs, Bayer HealthCare has made its largest investment ever in West Berkeley.
Berkeley Fire Department reports ammonia leak at Bayer lab
Update, 8:40 p.m.: BFD and BPD issued a Nixle alert around 7 p.m. saying that the incident at Bayer was over. “All ammonia readings back to zero,” it states. “No release to atmosphere. Property back under Bayer control. Incident terminated at approximately 6:30 p.m. No report on cause at this time.”
Bayer explains loud alarm in Berkeley on Monday
A loud alarm emanating from Bayer HealthCare’s West Berkeley campus concerned many local residents Monday night who wanted to know its cause.
Bayer invests $100M in new testing facility in Berkeley
Bayer HealthCare on Wednesday announced an investment of $100 million to build a new product testing facility at the company’s 45-acre manufacturing site in West Berkeley. The funds will support the pharmaceutical company’s next generation of hemophilia A therapies.
Op-ed: Bayer needs to come clean on Aspirin’s inventor
This past March I attended the 100th birthday of my uncle. Many of my relatives were gathered, including cousins from Israel. I learned that one of our distant cousins, Arthur Eichengrün, invented Aspirin, the most widely used drug in the world, with over 50,000 tons of it consumed annually.
Bayer HealthCare may expand in West Berkeley
Bayer HealthCare won unanimous approval Thursday from the city of Berkeley’s zoning board to make significant changes at its West Berkeley campus, on Grayson Street, to prepare it to manufacture a new generation of the company’s recombinant DNA treatments for hemophilia.
Bayer invites public comment on new building proposal
Bayer HealthCare will hold an open house Thursday evening to ask for public comment on a new 80,000-square-foot building the company is considering constructing in West Berkeley.
Berkeley praises Bayer, city’s largest for-profit employer
Over the years, Berkeley’s largest for-profit employer has contributed $20 million to the city, created hundreds of jobs, developed paid science training programs for youth and invested in a community foundation to support key health and education programs.
Bayer unveils Berkeley’s largest solar installation
Yesterday, Bayer Healthcare’s manufacturing facility in west Berkeley unveiled the city’s largest solar installation. Mayor Tom Bates cut the ribbon to the 1,000-panel installation which provides shading to Bayer’s parking lot, and was designed and installed by SolarCity.
Activists accuse Bayer of killing bees, protest in Berkeley
A group of about fifty protesters from Taking Back Our Food System, an East Bay coalition of food, Occupy, and environmental and human rights activists, staged a demonstration outside Bayer’s plant on Parker Street in west Berkeley Wednesday afternoon to protest what it said was the pharmaceutical company’s role in creating pesticides that killed bees.
