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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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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 […]