10-Aug-2011 - Akela Pharma is focusing on its CMO and expanding it through acquisitions after its partner exited their drug development programme.
09-Aug-2011 - Contract manufacturing of somatic cell line therapies is to begin at apceth after the German company received a license.
09-Aug-2011 - Neovacs is looking to partner for late stage development after using its outsourced model to bring multiple products to Phase II.
04-Aug-2011 - DSM wants to form a CMO joint venture to become less reliant on big pharma clients and revive the flagging business unit.
28-Jul-2011 - Pharmaceutics International (Pii) has expanded its range of formulation and process development services with the addition of bioavailability boosting hot-melt extrusion (HME) capabilities.
19-Jul-2011 - EDT will accelerate its shift to proprietary products and consolidate to save $20m when its takeover by Alkermes closes.
12-Jul-2011 - Phillips Plastics is to expand into Europe and add primary packaging contract manufacturing capabilities by acquiring Medisize.
11-Jul-2011 - Valeant Pharmaceuticals is to buy a dermatology unit, including CMO and in-house production assets, from Sanofi.
11-Jul-2011 - Costly and time consuming drug screening could soon be a thing of the past thanks to new easy-bake synthetic cell membranes made at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE).
31-May-2011 - Amarin has turned to CMOs to support the commercial launch of its prescription grade omega-3 fatty acid drug AMR101 for high triglyceride levels.
19-May-2011 - Alkermes saw losses increase in fiscal 2011 but has issued an upbeat outlook on higher revenues, portfolio expansion and impending acquisition of Elan Drug Technologies (EDT).
10-May-2011 - CMO Onyx Scientific will make a new anticancer API under a new deal with charity Cancer Research UK.
09-May-2011 - Elan will sell its delivery technology unit, EDT, to Alkermes in a deal that brings to an end the Irish drugmakers’ long search for a buyer.
02-May-2011 - US-based Pharmaceutics International, a contract development and manufacturing organization has added an MG2 G140 capsule filler to its oral manufacturing area.
02-May-2011 - Strong first quarter performance at the packaging unit helped West beat expectations but there were CZ and Delivery Systems disappointments.
26-Apr-2011 - Mitsui is to boost its intermediate, API and finished product CMO business and expand in China by buying MBS.
21-Apr-2011 - Elan Drug Technologies’ (EDT) revenues dropped in the first quarter as generic competition wiped out Skelaxin (metaxalone) earnings.
19-Apr-2011 - Outsourcing-Pharma presents a round up of contract services merger and acquisition activity, including deals at Evotec, Vyteris and Avantium Pharma.
14-Apr-2011 - Pharma industry demand for outsourced manufacturing is growing and will favour larger contracting players according to Elan Drug Technologies (EDT).
14-Apr-2011 - West Pharmaceutical Services is preparing to increase its manufacturing capacity in response to an increased demand for its Daikyo Crystal Zenith 1mL syringe system.
11-Apr-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.
23-Feb-2011 - Consolidation of CMOs will support use of completely outsourced production and distribution networks in the near future.
17-Feb-2011 - BioNano Consulting (BNC) has signed up two new experts as part of an effort to build its presence in China.
08-Feb-2011 - CRO Particle Sciences (PSI) has formed a strategic partnership with Horiba to use its characterisation tools and service its clients.
01-Feb-2011 - Oxford Biomedica has bought RecipharmCobra Biologics’ manufacturing facility in Oxford, UK, to reduce its reliance on third-party production of its gene delivery technology.