Acquisition looming in Calyx Pharma’s future, says CEO
22-Sep-2008 - Active pharmaceutical ingredient specialist Calyx Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals is planning an acquisition within the...
Joint API inspection service to cut costs
22-Sep-2008 - Germany-based Diapharm has launched a service allowing pharmaceutical manufacturers to perform joint third-party audits of...
High-potency unit opens at Phamatek
18-Sep-2008 - Pharmatek Laboratories has opened its highly-potent and cytotoxic facility located in San Diego, US, just...
Pharma outsourcing: people on the move
17-Sep-2008 - Outsourcing-Pharma.com presents its latest round-up of new appointments, employment moves and personnel news in the...
Boom times continue for Indian CMOs
15-Sep-2008 - India’s contract manufacturing market is expected to rocket forward over the next couple of...
Merger beefs up German CMO Haupt Pharma
10-Sep-2008 - Haupt Pharma has completed its merger with fellow German companies Amareg and Wülfing Pharma...
Patheon slashes losses in Q3
08-Sep-2008 - Canada’s Patheon put in another quarter of robust revenues growth in its third quarter,...
SAFC Pharma to get even bigger in high-potency APIs
04-Sep-2008 - US fine chemical company Sigma-Aldrich said this morning that subsidiary SAFC Pharma has kicked...
Major expansion at Coating Place completed
02-Sep-2008 - Microencapsulation specialist Coating Place Inc has just completed a major expansion of its contract...
AMRI raises guidance after BMS project moves forward
01-Sep-2008 - A milestone payment from Bristol-Myers Squibb for the successful advancement of a project into...
PharmEng cuts costs despite tripled turnover
01-Sep-2008 - Canada’s PharmEng International almost tripled its turnover in the second quarter, as its acquisition...
CSL snaps up Talecris for $3.1bn
14-Aug-2008 - Australia’s CSL Ltd has signed a $3.1bn agreement to acquire Talecris Biotherapeutics of the...
Enzon may sell Indy plant alongside specialty pharma
12-Aug-2008 - Pharmaceutical company Enzon may hive off its entire specialty drugs division, including a manufacturing...
High-potency buoys Cambrex in 2Q
12-Aug-2008 - Cambrex posted a 5 per cent hike in revenues in the second quarter, helped by...
Brown steps up pharma outsourcing probe
31-Jul-2008 - US Senator Sherrod Brown has fired off another broadside in his probe into pharmaceutical outsourcing,...
Nectar to set up RS 6bn bulk drug plant
29-Jul-2008 - Contract manufacturer Nectar Lifesciences is to invest around RS 6bn ($141m) in a new bulk...
Small molecules drive Lonza contract unit in 1H
24-Jul-2008 - Lonza of Switzerland is reaping the benefit of a shift away from bulk chemicals and...
Pharmaceutical outsourcing: people on the move
22-Jul-2008 - Outsourcing-Pharma.com presents its periodic round-up of personnel changes in the pharmaceutical outsourcing arena, with...
Hikal's sales up two thirds on long-term contracts
21-Jul-2008 - Supply and manufacturing contracts signed during fiscal 2008 helped India's Hikal achieve first quarter sales...
Weekly comment
Globalisation of advanced R&D services 'on the rise'
17-Jul-2008 - Pharmaceutical companies in the developed world have already shifted substantial manufacturing and clinical trial work...
Lonza to co-develop Novartis' biologics
14-Jul-2008 - Lonza is to co-develop and manufacture Novartis' biological pipeline as part of a long term...
Contract manufacturing market changing shape
08-Jul-2008 - The contract manufacturing sector is likely to enjoy "continued and accelerating growth" in the coming...
Pfizer's plan to sell Little Island API plant falters
07-Jul-2008 - A deal to sell Pfizer's active pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturing (API) plant in County Cork, Ireland,...
Lonza scores stem cell deal; builds facility
01-Jul-2008 - Lonza has scored a contract manufacturing agreement from Osiris Therapeutics for its investigational adult stem...
Avid Bioservices approved as PER.C6 CMO
30-Jun-2008 - DSM Biologics and Crucell have appointed Avid Bioservices as the first pre-approved US contract manufacturer...
