Microbiology media maker Cherwell Laboratories has announced plans to expand its manufacturing capacity in response to growing industry demand for environmental monitoring products.
How have single-use technologies changed drug production? How do you dispose of a disposable technology? What will drive the market going forward? EMD Millipore answered these questions and more at Interphex 2011.
Bend Research, the Oregon US-based drug manufacturer, has received a new US patent covering the use of polymer additives to help increase the efficacy of low-solubility drugs.
PTI Inspection Systems and Nikka Densok USA have teamed up to take high-voltage leak detection (HVLD) from the factory floor to the pharmaceutical lab.
LB Bohle says healthy level of demand for processing technology demos at its recently opened service centre is an indication of processing tech market recovery.
Contract manufacturing organisation (CMO) Patheon has launched a new ‘back up’ sterile manufacturing service to help drug firms cope with supply interruptions and, it hopes, attract new business.
The biomanufacturing industry needs to adopt an integrated approach to upstream and downstream processing to boost efficiency and productivity according to EMD Millipore.
Sepha, the Belfast, Northern Ireland-based packaging machinery expert, has developed what it claims is the world’s first tool-less vision-based leak detection machine for blister-packs.
Suven Life Sciences’ facility in Pashamylaram, India has been cleared for the production active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and intermediates by the US FDA.
Regulatory demands for ‘in process’ performance data have changed the pharma sector’s approach to materials analysis and enhanced the quality of the drugs it produces according to Freeman Technology.
ATMI LifeSciences has introduced a new method of integrity testing for its range of single-use bioprocess vessels that, it claims, will take QA in the biomanufacturing sector to a new level.
The US FDA set out its support for properly planned continuous manufacturing during a fascinating opening presentation at the first day of Interphex 2011 in New York, US yesterday.
US contract manufacturing organisation (CMO) Catalent has reported that no employees were injured in the fire that occurred at its packaging facility in the UK last week.
Almac Pharma Services has expanded its cold storage capacity for biopharmaceuticals, continuing the contract manufacturing organisation’s (CMO) busy expansion programme.
Copley Scientific, the Nottingham, UK-based lab equipment manufacturer, has confirmed delivery of eight tablet dissolution testers to contract research organisation (CRO), Melbourn Scientific.
The EMA and the US FDA will conduct parallel assessment of QbD development and manufacturing data for new drug submissions under a new pilot scheme announced this week.
Almac Clinical Services has added to installed two new automated wallet presses at its facilities in Craigavon, Northern Ireland and Pennsylvania in the US.
SAFC, the custom manufacturing wing of global healthcare giant Sigma Aldritch, has announced the launch of raw materials and custom services specifically developed for point-of-care (POC) diagnostics manufacture.
Cytovance Biologics, the US-based biopharmaceutical contract manufacturer (CMO), has secured a growth equity investment from Connecticut, US-based private investors, Great Point Partners.
Johnson & Johnson, the multinational healthcare giant, has announced it has finalised the terms of a consent decree with the FDA over its stricken McNeil PPC manufacturing plants.
A customer decision to halt development of an antibiotic and end a manufacturing contract early helped Patheon to an improved set results for the first quarter of fiscal 2011.
Supply chain services firm Tracelink says that half of Catalent Pharma Solutions’ US manufacturing sites have been added to its network under the strategic partnership signed last summer.
A new study suggests pressurised carbon dioxide can accelerate crystalisation during drug production, and potentially save manufacturers time and money.
US healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has recalled 384,000 of its insulin cartridges on concerns the products could cause serious health problems for diabetics.
GEA Pharma Systems, the German drug processing equipment manufacturer, has signed a representation agreement with Swedish hi-tech firm Christian Berner Tech Trade.
Agilent Technolgies, the Santa Clara, US-based scientific instrument manufacturer, has acquired instrument manufacturer and contract research organisation (CRO), Biocius Life Sciences, for an undisclosed amount.
