Being geographically close to customers reduces excipient costs and timelines says Colorcon, as it prepares to open the doors at its first South American production plant.
Fresh off the near completion of its depot in Sau Paulo, Brazil, Marken has now also completed the construction of another depot in Santiago, Chile, in order to more easily handle the influx of clinical trial specimens coming from South America.
Supply chain specialist Marken announced last week the opening of their newest clinical trials depot in Sao Paulo, Brazil to help sponsors and CROs looking to conduct trials there and elsewhere.
A Brazilian Court in Sao Paulo has ordered Eli Lilly pay about $450m for exposing former employees of its subsidiary to hazardous substances in a manufacturing facility operated between 1977 and 2003.
Gerresheimer has bought Brazilian pharmaceutical plastic packaging maker Vedat, citing rapid growth of the country’s drug market, particularly the generics segment, as the main driver for the acquisition.
Merck KGaA has opened a new centre in India to showcase its range of technology solutions to the country’s rapidly expanding pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries.
Covance says its new clinical development offices in Brazil and Mexico will increase access to treatment-naïve patients and, ultimately, save pharmaceutical sponsors money.
PRA International has opened a drug safety centre in São Paulo, Brazil, expanding its presence in Latin America and bringing its array of services to a new market.
Despite going through a difficult period PharmaNet is continuing to expand through the opening of another office in Latin America, which reinforces its commitment to the region.
Thermo Fisher Scientific hopes that the web functionality offered by the latest generation of its Darwin LIMS system will help it become the natural selection for drug makers seeking an all-in-one QA solution.
inVentiv Clinical has become the latest contract research
organisation (CRO) to open up shop in blossoming Latin America in a
bid to gain more of a global reach.
German pharmaceutical packaging group Gerresheimer has once again
extended its reach in the plastic packaging space, this time
acquiring Allplas Embalagens, the market leader for pharmaceutical
plastic packaging in Brazil.
MDS Pharma Services is the latest contract research organisation
(CRO) to branch out into a new and exotic emerging market location,
with the establishment of an office in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
US drug packaging manufacturer Brady has bought a Brazilian label
maker in a bid to expand its operations not only in Brazil but
throughout Latin America - an area considered by analysts to have a
great business potential.
Klöckner Pentaplast says it is currently installing rigid vinyl
film production capacity at its subsidiary, Pentaplast do Brasil,
with production set to start in the New Year.