Gerresheimer Regensburg GmbH has announced plans to increase production of its medical injection moulders four-fold in its China facility over the next 18 months.
West Pharmaceutical Services says new R&D centre will focus on elastomer formulations and process development for its packaging and delivery tech businesses.
Multivac is developing a new packaging solution for sterile medical products that it says will solve issues in packaging diversity and batch size, as well as speeding up line clearance.
Intelliject has received tentative US FDA approval for its e-cue ‘talking’ autoinjector, setting the device maker up for a potentially lucrative partnership with licensee French drug giant Sanofi.
Robert Bosch Packaging Technology has sold a filling line to US firm Pharmalucence Partners, which is expanding its contract pharmaceutical manufacturing business.
Gerresheimer saw strong demand for plastic systems and moulded glassware in the second quarter fiscal 2011, while tubular glass revenue dipped slightly.
The glass packaging industry in Europe posted a 3.5 per cent year-on year production increase to 20.7m tonnes in 2010 as output partially recovered from its 2009 slump.
Gerresheimer will expand its pharmaceutical packaging plant in the Czech Republic to meet growing demand for plastic systems and to further expand a key training hub.
Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB) has teamed up with packaging firm Sudpack Medica AG in a deal focused on making plastic films for biopharmaceutical industry applications.
Brussels should step in to break the decade-long deadlock over the setting up of a mandatory registry for nanomaterial-containing products, said the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI).
Canadian pharmaceutical packaging firm, Ropack, has begun stickpack production in its new state-of-the-art 15,000 sq. ft. dedicated manufacturing suite.
A serialisation system developed by Systech International has been selected by a ‘top 10’ pharma client as a way of meeting Brazil’s Law 11.903 track and trace requirements.
Primary packaging maker Schott has joined the growing list of drug industry companies seeking to tap Russian government demand for increased domestic manufacturing.
Oystar has sold its processing tech units, Huttlin and Manesty, to Bosch in a deal that continues its effort to refocus on primary and secondary packaging.
The finding that space flight is detrimental to drug stability may have implications for drug packaging, dispensing technologies and mail order delivery according to a NASA study.
West Pharmaceutical Services is preparing to increase its manufacturing capacity in response to an increased demand for its Daikyo Crystal Zenith 1mL syringe system.
Gerresheimer reported revenue growth in the first quarter of fiscal 2011, citing demand from the pharmaceutical and cosmetics sectors as the key drivers.
Unilife has begun a ‘scheduled realignment’ of its operating infrastructure to support the production and sale of its Unifill prefilled syringe, according to a statement released by the company.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a new advisory designed to help drugmakers prevent the formation of glass fragments in vials following a spate of recent recalls.
West Pharmaceutical Services has moved to expanded its offering by partnering on the development of a new needle-free technology for drug reconstitution with hospital supply giant Carefusion.