24-Oct-2011 - Almac hopes adding high potency API manufacturing capacity at its plant in Craigavon, Northern Ireland will help it retain early phase projects as they move to late-stage development.
20-Oct-2011 - Abbott says its contract manufacturing business is likely to be part of the diversified drug company formed after its planned corporate split.
13-Oct-2011 - DPT Laboratories has announced a multi- million dollar investment designed to boost its liquid and semi-solids and sterile manufacturing capacity.
13-Oct-2011 - A Senate report has slammed the ACRO-backed overseas profit tax break for doing more to help execs’ pay packets than US employment.
13-Oct-2011 - Rebranding seems to be in vougue in the pharmaceutical services sector this month, with three firms changing their monikers.
05-Oct-2011 - Solvias and RohnerChem have set up a research and manufacturing services partnership designed to accelerate the production, scale-up and commercialisation of APIs.
03-Oct-2011 - CDMO Aesica is to add manufacturing capacity in Asia and the US following a cash injection from private equity firm Silverfleet Capital.
28-Sep-2011 - Supplies of Johnson & Johnson’s Doxil cancer drug will be cut down in coming months as the company transitions to a new manufacturer.
27-Sep-2011 - Cambridge Major Laboratories Europe (CMLE) is set to start commercial API manufacturing at its facility in the Netherlands after approval by Dutch regulators.
22-Sep-2011 - AAIPharma Services has created a 24/7 online quote generation and sample submission service to simplify raw material testing requests.
21-Sep-2011 - Amrutanjan Health Care plans to add contract manufacturing and custom synthesis to services offered by loss making fine chemicals business, according to various reports.
21-Sep-2011 - Catalent has struck up a deal with Toyobo Biologics to launch its cell line engineering technology on the Japanese market.
19-Sep-2011 - SAFC announced its new aggressive growth strategy, including plans to expand in the developing markets, at its conference in Irvine, Glasgow last week.
14-Sep-2011 - The FDA has sent a warning letter to Lonza’s Hopkinton, MA plant after inspectors found faults with how it produces an oncology API for Eisai.
13-Sep-2011 - Contract manufacturer CMC Biologics has ramped-up bioreactor capacity to meet demand for biologic drugs for Phase III clinical trials and beyond.
08-Sep-2011 - Contract manufacturing organisation (CMO) Aurobindo Pharma has teamed up with Russian supplement maker OJSC Diod to establish a manufacturing joint-venture.
07-Sep-2011 - Brooks Laboratories had a torrid first day on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) with high volume trading taking the firm’s share price on a rollercoaster ride of highs and lows.
06-Sep-2011 - Japanese CMO Toyobo says it will increase capacity for injectable drugs to secure its position as a service provider in the expanding biopharmaceutical sector.
01-Sep-2011 - Royal DSM and Sinochem’s anti-infective manufacturing and distribution JV in China has been given the green light by competition authorities.
01-Sep-2011 - Advantar Labs has allied with DavosPharma to accelerate clients’ development programmes with chemistry and analytical services.
31-Aug-2011 - Baxter International has expanded freeze-drying capacity at its biomanufacturing facility in Halle, Germany citing growing pharmaceutical industry demand for cytotoxic contract manufacturing.
29-Aug-2011 - Chemicals maker Granules India says it will expand manufacturing capacity for oral solid dose (OSD) APIs and drug intermediates in a bid to better meet the needs of clients.
22-Aug-2011 - US-based contract manufacturer Ben Venue Laboratories (BVL) is to exit the CMO industry.
22-Aug-2011 - JB Chemicals and Asymchem Laboratories are expanding in response to interest in outsourcing manufacturing to India and China.
09-Aug-2011 - Neovacs is looking to partner for late stage development after using its outsourced model to bring multiple products to Phase II.