09-Aug-2011 - FDA scrutiny of the Burlington, MA sterile plant AMRI bought in 2010 has made the takeover a “money pit”, an analyst said.
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.
01-Aug-2011 - Robert Bosch Packaging Technology has sold a filling line to US firm Pharmalucence Partners, which is expanding its contract pharmaceutical manufacturing business.
01-Aug-2011 - AmerisourceBergen is looking to buy pharmaceutical packaging and distribution assets using some of the $2bn (€1.4bn) it has accumulated.
20-Jul-2011 - Sherpa has cut the ribbon on a new cGMP biotech clinical trial material packaging facility in San Diego.
12-Jul-2011 - Phillips Plastics is to expand into Europe and add primary packaging contract manufacturing capabilities by acquiring Medisize.
29-Jun-2011 - Sherpa Clinical Packaging says its new facility has passed an inspection by the California Food and Drug Branch (FDB) of the Department of Public Health.
28-Jun-2011 - 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.
30-May-2011 - UK-based contract manufacturing organisation (CMO) SCM Pharma has struck a deal with urology experts Speciality European Pharma (SEP) to help bring SEP's oncology product, Plenaxis, to the European market.
19-May-2011 - Prefilled injection systems specialist Vetter has completed structural work on its new facility in Erlen, Germany, eleven months after ground-breaking.
19-May-2011 - CMO Gallus BioPharmaceuticals has bought, and is investing in, a Centocor biologics facility after receiving private equity backing.
16-May-2011 - Primary packaging maker Schott has joined the growing list of drug industry companies seeking to tap Russian government demand for increased domestic manufacturing.
02-May-2011 - Strong first quarter performance at the packaging unit helped West beat expectations but there were CZ and Delivery Systems disappointments.
05-Apr-2011 - Processing and packaging technology firm Romaco will be sold to German private equity group Deutsche Beteiligungs AG (DBAG) for €61m (£86.5m).
29-Mar-2011 - US contract manufacturing organisation (CMO) Catalent has reported that no employees were injured in the fire that occurred at its packaging facility in the UK last week.
28-Mar-2011 - Outsourcing-Pharma presents a round up of recent clinical trial packaging services partnerships.
01-Mar-2011 - Contract packagers will lose deals if they fail to adapt to biopharm outsourcing “more and more” serialisation work, according to CEO of Covectra.
23-Feb-2011 - Consolidation of CMOs will support use of completely outsourced production and distribution networks in the near future.
21-Feb-2011 - Operating profit at West tumbled in the fourth quarter as restructuring charges and the lack of H1N1 affected results.
17-Feb-2011 - Pfizer’s Capsugel unit has bought an injection molding technology that, it believes, will expand its capsule filling business into new “high value segments.”
15-Feb-2011 - Unilife saw its losses increase in the second quarter of fiscal 2011 on the lack of industrialisation revenue, higher R&D spending and the cost of its move to the US.
08-Feb-2011 - A contract printing firm based in Winsford, UK has successfully achieved pharmaceutical industry accreditation.
27-Jan-2011 - Covectra is launching a packaging serialisation system to support data exchange between biopharm contract service providers and their clients.
25-Jan-2011 - Outsourcing-Pharma looks at the Twitter accounts of 50 CROs and CMOs to see how and why they are using the service.
20-Jan-2011 - Boehringer Ingelheim is to acquire a California, US manufacturing facility from Amgen to expand its contract biologics production capabilities.