Biotechs that partner or outsource in emerging markets are better equipped to innovate and prosper, according to research that warns “if you are not in Shanghai, Mumbai, or Dubai, watch out".
With Lonza and JLL competing over Patheon Outsourcing-Pharma looks at what the CMO offers to a prospective buyer, analysing its global manufacturing capacity and backlog using interactive maps and graphs.
UK API maker and contract manufacturing organization (CMO) Aesica Pharmaceutical has landed a multi-year deal to produce and package drugs on behalf of Amdipharm.
Bangladesh represents a “huge opportunity” to pharma, according to the CEO of Amreteck Pharma who believes that CMOs will be attracted by the low costs, which undercut China, and help the industry grow to $10bn (€6.9m) in 10 years.
CMO Encap has expanded its colonic delivery offering and is combining the technology with liquid dosage forms to provide clients with a way to administer a wide range of therapeutics to the region.
Cloud Packaging Solutions has said the acquisition of Toll Packaging will boost its ability to meet the increased demand for shorter packing runs triggered by the current global economic crisis.
CMO Avid Bioservices’ revenues rose by 74 per cent to $2.1m (€1.5m) in Q2, generating a further $7m from its parent company, and it has plans to boost output and become a leader in mammalian cell culture production.
US contract services firm PharmaForm has cut its workforce to 65 employees in a restructuring plan that parent company Akela Pharma said optimises its client support infrastructure.
Biotechnology firm Cel-Sci claims the “True Cold” low-temperature fill and finish service at its new manufacturing facility near Baltimore, Maryland is a first for the global contracting sector.
The Californian budget deficit presents a “real risk to future biotech investments”, according to the CEO of BayBio who explained to how the industry now has a difficult relationship with the state.
Ark Therapeutics is using its expertise and spare capacity to move into the contract manufacturing sector and is hoping to sign deals to produce the DNA-based medicine.
Researchers have presented a low cost track and trace and authentication system, which they believe could be implemented immediately, to combat counterfeiting in the developing world.
Canadian contractor Patheon has welcomed the $460m (€321m) takeover offer from Switzerland's Lonza that could, according to some observers, spark a bidding war with rival suitor, US group JLL Patheon Holdings.
Catalent Pharma Soultions’ pharmaceutical softgels facility in Buenos Aires, Argentina has passed a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) GMP audit and pre-approval inspection.
Amcor has temporarily halted trading on the Australian stock exchange, fuelling rumours that the group is finally about to move for Rio Tinto’s Alcan pharmaceutical packaging unit.
The EMEA has approved Patheon’s facility in Manati, Puerto Rico, allowing the CMO to import to Europe and improving its fortunes on the island that caused it financial problems in the past.
India’s outsourcing sector is growing at 43 per cent, according to a new report that predicts the country will take a bigger share of the global market as concerns about operating there diminish.
AmerisourceBergen’s contract packaging business believes the outlook for the sector is improving after it posted an 11 per cent rise in operating income in Q3.
US firm Isogen says the combination of aseptic filling, engineering and containment know-how on offer at its new Science Center is unique among facilities serving the clinical market.
Beauty packaging specialist Rexam is considering issuing new equity to service its burdensome debt pile, after market conditions failed to improve in the last quarter.
US firm Compass Pharma Services is now offering ISO class 8 certified packaging services in a bid to capture a share of the expanding high-potency drug sector.
India’s Terrene Pharma has opened what it claims is the only gelatine capsule manufacturing plant in the country to be “designed from inception as per US FDA, EU EDQM and WHO GMP requirements.”
NextPharma Technologies’ development facility in Braine l’Alleud, Belgium has received positive early feedback following an inspection by the country’s drug watchdog, the AFMPS.
Austria’s Borealis has brought its Bormed LE6609-PH BFS grade plastic back to market in a move that, it claims, will allow converters to speed up their production cycles by reducing autoclave residence time.
Australian group Amcor has confirmed that talks about a takeover of Alcan’s pharmaceutical packaging business are still ongoing but says that no binding agreement has yet been reached.
US contract manufacturer West Pharmaceutical Services has purchased French device firm Plastef Investissements’ drug delivery business, adding the eris safety syringe system to its offering.
Northern Irish pack testing specialist Sepha has moved forward with plans to enter the Japanese market, showcasing its BlisterScan platform at Interphex Japan in Tokyo last week.
Sigpack Systems, a subsidiary of Bosch Packaging Technology, claims its new toploader unit will both improve the efficiency and cut the cost of handling delicate pharmaceutical packaging.
German aseptic filling specialist Vetter has boosted packaging operations at its new facility in Ravensburg to meet growing demand for cost-effective secondary packaging services
Sanofi-Aventis is using SCM Pharma’s aseptic fill/finish service for radiolabelled compounds to manufacture an oncology product that is in clinical trials.
US contractor Velesco Pharmaceutical Services has leased a new clinical trial materials manufacturing facility in Kalamazoo, Michigan, extending its range of preclinical and early trial development services.
MDS Pharma Services is renovating and expanding its Taiwanese discovery pharmacology operation in response to growing global demand for work performed in Asia.
JAPM and SABEQ have launched initiatives to help companies in Jordan bring their pharma packaging and manufacturing practices inline with established markets.
3M Drug Delivery Technologies has expanded its respiratory drug delivery system offering with its Taper DPI which, it claims, makes carrier compounds unnecessary and will help drug formulators save millions.
US contract services group CoreRx has unveiled plans to purchase a new manufacturing site in Hillsborough County, Florida, according to a report in the Tampa Bay Business Journal.
US Instrument specialist Mocon has launched Pac Check 650 EC, a packaging headspace analyser that, it says, can help pharma manufacturers find the right oxygen/carbon dioxide balance to support shelf life and drug efficacy goals.
Power outages cost India $9.2bn (€6.5bn) in 2008, according to a report, with the disruptions causing direct losses in numerous sectors, including pharma and biotech.
Piramal Healthcare’s new clinical trial manufacturing, packaging and distribution centre in Northumberland, UK will help pharma industry customers to “build cost saving at an early stage,” according to European strategic manager Martin Hunt.
Telstar unveiled a range of products at Achema 2009 in Frankfurt, Germany last week, including its compact unloading system that forms part of its automatic vial loading system and aims to minimise installation space.
A new 9,500 unit per hour sterilised syringe filler was a highlight of Bosch Packaging Technology’s busy programme of machine launches at Achema 2009 in Frankfurt, Germany this week.
A new ready-to-use WFI prefilled syringe for the reconstitution of lyophilised drugs is likely to win fans among producers of high-value biopharma drugs according to West Pharmaceutical Services’s VP of European marketing, Mike Schaefers.
Althea Technologies’ biologics and injectables contract development, manufacturing and testing facility in San Diego, US is open for business, bringing to an end the firm’s two year campaign to expand capacity.
US drug packaging firm Aylward Enterprises has called in Siemens’ energy and automation division to help design the latest generation of its ACT 9000 series bottle filling machine.
US contractor MeadWestvaco (MWV) claims the latest addition to its Shellpack range, the Shellpak-170, offers drugmakers more options for adherence promotion blister packaging.
The US contract manufacturing sector is strong enough to bounce back from any short-term slow down caused by the credit crisis, according to a new report by Frost & Sullivan (F&S).
PTI Packaging Systems chose this year's Interphex show to introduce its new unit dose, or "stick pack," production machine to the North American packaging sector.
Piramal Healthcare is switching its UK API making operations to Morpeth, Nothumberland after a downturn in the Indian CMO’s international business cut capacity utilisation at its former base in Huddersfield to just 35 per cent.
United Drug’s contract packaging business is expected to report a significant dip in profits but strong performance in the sales division helped push up its share price.
India’s Shasun Chemicals officially closed its pharmaceutical manufacturing plant near Annan in Scotland today yesterday, a little under six months after saying that it was ‘underused’ and could not be kept on as a going concern
