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.
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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.
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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.
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Berkeley Fire Department reports ammonia leak at Bayer lab
Berkeley Fire Department responded to an ammonia leak at Bayer in West Berkeley on Thursday, Dec. 22. Photo: BFD/Instagram 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 […]
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Bayer explains loud alarm in Berkeley on Monday
Local residents in West Berkeley were concerned by a loud alarm that sounded for more than five minutes Monday night. Photo: Tracey Taylor Local residents in West Berkeley were concerned by a loud alarm that sounded for more than five minutes Monday night. Photo: Tracey Taylor A loud alarm emanating from Bayer HealthCare’s West Berkeley campus concerned […]
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Bayer invests $100M in new testing facility in Berkeley
Bayer HealtCare, Berkeley’s biggest private employer, is investing $100 million in a new testing facility on its 45-acre West Berkeley campus. Photo: Tracey Taylor Bayer HealtCare, Berkeley’s biggest private employer, is investing $100 million in a new testing facility on its 45-acre West Berkeley campus. Photo: Tracey Taylor Bayer HealthCare on Wednesday announced an investment of $100 million […]
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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. There’s understandable family pride in having such an […]
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Bayer HealthCare may expand in West Berkeley
Bayer HealthCare is considering building on Grayson Street. Image: Flad Architects 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 spokeswoman Trina Ostrander said in […]
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Bayer invites public comment on new building proposal
Bayer is considering the construction of a new building on the former Colgate soap factory site in West Berkeley. Image: Bayer HealthCare 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. The new 3-story facility, near Grayson […]
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Berkeley praises Bayer, city’s largest for-profit employer
Congresswoman Barbara Lee joined local 11th graders at Career Day at Bayer on May 14, 2012. Photo: Bayer 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 […]
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Bayer unveils Berkeley’s largest solar installation
Bayer's newly unveiled solar installation provides energy as well as shade in its west Berkeley parking lot 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. At 295 kilowatts, the system […]
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Activists accuse Bayer of killing bees, protest in Berkeley
Protesters concerned about the alleged impact of Bayer pesticides demonstrated outside the Berkeley campus on May 16. Photo: Tracey Taylor 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 […]
