Fine chemicals firm Minakem believes that manufacturing capacity added by its newly acquired API plant in Dunkirk, France will reduce costs and help it compete on a global scale.
Piramal Healthcare’s new clinical trial manufacturing, packaging and distribution centre in Northumberland, UK will help pharma industry customers to “build cost saving at an early stage,” according to European strategic manager Martin Hunt.
Freeman Technologies, which showcased its FT4 Rheometer at Achema in Frankfurt, Germany, last week, says pharmaceutical powders are complex systems that require analysis of multiple parameters.
Telstar unveiled a range of products at Achema 2009 in Frankfurt, Germany last week, including its compact unloading system that forms part of its automatic vial loading system and aims to minimise installation space.
A new 9,500 unit per hour sterilised syringe filler was a highlight of Bosch Packaging Technology’s busy programme of machine launches at Achema 2009 in Frankfurt, Germany this week.
ExcellGene’s OrbShake 250L mammalian cell culture bioreactor has equalled biomass productivity and oxygenation levels previously only achieved by traditional stirred tank systems.
Rottendorf Pharma has completed its development and upscaling pilot plant, which will complement its other sites that provide manufacturing and packaging services.
UK CMO SCM Pharma, which specialises in the handling of volatile materials, has won a contract to fill and finish a radiolabelled oncology drug on behalf of European drug major Sanofi Aventis.
A new ready-to-use WFI prefilled syringe for the reconstitution of lyophilised drugs is likely to win fans among producers of high-value biopharma drugs according to West Pharmaceutical Services’s VP of European marketing, Mike Schaefers.
Agilent has completed the second expansion of its nucleic acid active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturing facility, which is intended to meet rising demand for oligonucleotide-based drugs.
US chemistry firm PharmaTek Laboratories has a green light to start making high potency APIs and cytotoxics at its facility in California after meeting strict safety and control rules that govern their production.
Millipore has launched its single-use ChromaSorb membrane adsorber, which binds negative impurities from host cell protein (HCP), DNA, endotoxins, and viruses at high salt concentrations.
Drug delivery specialist Hospira has set up a “biologics clock” that counts the amount spent on cell culture-derived medications in the US in a bid to highlight the potential savings greater use of generics could provide.
Copley Scientific is expanding its range of nebuliser testing equipment by launching its NGI Cooler, which has been developed in light of suggested revisions to aerosol monographs on both sides of the Atlantic.
Bemis has confirmed that “confidential efforts are ongoing” in its attempt to acquire Alcan Packaging, which has been up for sale since mining giant Rio Tinto bought its parent company.
Althea Technologies’ biologics and injectables contract development, manufacturing and testing facility in San Diego, US is open for business, bringing to an end the firm’s two year campaign to expand capacity.
GEA Pharma Systems’ process equipment is now available with its Lighthouse Probe technology, which uses fibre optics and mirrors to give a clear view of the product when it is in the machine.
SAFC and Vivalis have launched a new media designed to allow the latter’s commonly used virus producing EB66 cell line to grow at higher cell densities and produce higher yields.
Canada’s Patheon has been contracted to commercialise treatments for allergy and depression using the Oros controlled release technology at its manufacturing facility in Cincinnati, US.
Xspray has doubled its personnel and laboratory space in response to demand for its manufacturing service, which is designed to overcome the drawbacks associated with micronisation.
US drug packaging firm Aylward Enterprises has called in Siemens’ energy and automation division to help design the latest generation of its ACT 9000 series bottle filling machine.
Millipore is collaborating with Microbix Biosystems to improve influenza vaccine manufacturing by developing a purification process using novel chromatographic technology.
Lonza has felt “no negative impact” from the economic crisis and demand from clients remains strong, which will enable the company to post average growth in the high teens until 2013.
Construction of a new stem cell research and processing plant began yesterday in China’s Eastern Jiangsu province as part of a joint project between the Chinese government and Shenzen Beike Biotechnology.
API maker Hovione’s manufacturing facility in Cork, Ireland was unveiled at an opening ceremony yesterday just two weeks after the previous owner, global drug giant Pfizer, formally handed over the keys.
China Aoxing Pharmaceutical, a specialist developer of pain management drugs, has received GMP accreditation for the new tablet production and packaging plant it has set up in Shijiazhuang.
Polestar Technologies has launched its iDOT single-use pH and dissolved oxygen sensor, which can be welded into the walls of disposable reactors to provide in situ process monitoring.
French diagnostics and microbiology firm bioMerieux claims its new range of indicator medias will help drugmakers cut testing times and reduce errors during GMP mandated sterility analysis.
US contractor MeadWestvaco (MWV) claims the latest addition to its Shellpack range, the Shellpak-170, offers drugmakers more options for adherence promotion blister packaging.
PharmEng has filed a notice of intent (NOI) to make a proposal under the Canadian Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act in an attempt to “regain the company's financial footing”.
The US contract manufacturing sector is strong enough to bounce back from any short-term slow down caused by the credit crisis, according to a new report by Frost & Sullivan (F&S).
The Association of Southeast Asia Nations’ (ASEAN) member states will recognise each others GMP certificates as part of a programme intended to raise standards and eliminate trade barriers.
Almac claims it can bring drugs to trial faster using an automated approach to compliance that cuts the time taken to validate manufacturing processes by several months.
Troubled Canadian contract manufacturing firm PharmEng International, faced with a serious cash flow crisis, has announced the departure of chief financial officer Brian Fielding and two other senior executives.
Biopharmaceuticals firm Shire will cease manufacture at its plant in Owings Mills, Maryland, US with the loss of 260 jobs in the latest stage of its plan to wind up the in-house production of small molecule drugs.
The FDA has provided a model for implementing the ICH Q10 quality control system in its final guidance, which is intended help manufacturers adapt processes throughout a product’s lifecycle.
Companies are maintaining their spending on quality control measures despite the challenging operating environment, according to Matthew Kopecky, product manager at Sparta Systems.
MDRNA is selling its manufacturing business to US generics firm Par Pharmaceuticals in a bid to boost its coffers and complete its transformation into a purely RNAi focused organisation.
PTI Packaging Systems chose this year's Interphex show to introduce its new unit dose, or "stick pack," production machine to the North American packaging sector.
OctoPlus has inked a deal with a European biotech that will see it evaluate the feasibility of a controlled release formulation using its proprietary drug delivery technology.
Piramal Healthcare is switching its UK API making operations to Morpeth, Nothumberland after a downturn in the Indian CMO’s international business cut capacity utilisation at its former base in Huddersfield to just 35 per cent.
Novozymes and Millipore have launched an animal-free culture supplement, which has been designed to reduce risk and regulatory pressures in upstream biopharmaceutical processes.
Patheon and India’s Kemwell have formed an alliance under which they will refer and market each others' services to development and manufacturing clients
ESS Technologies’ says its unique robotic loading system improves the speed, efficiency and accuracy of pharmaceutical manufacturers’ tube filling and closing operations.
US generic drugmaker Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories has recalled batches of its heart drug digoxin after tests revealed the tablets may vary in size and dosage.
Bayer Technology Services GmbH, an affiliate of Germany's Bayer, has opened its first regional office in India, enlarging its presence in the fast-growing Asian markets.
India’s Shasun Chemicals officially closed its pharmaceutical manufacturing plant near Annan in Scotland today yesterday, a little under six months after saying that it was ‘underused’ and could not be kept on as a going concern
Custom micronisation and milling firm SDTech has bolted on particle size analysis to its suite of drug industry offerings through a new collaboration with UK analysis specialist Malvern Instruments.