Niro Pharma Systems unit Courtoy has improved its MODUL rotary
tablet press range with the launch of the MODUL D, a double-sided
version that ramps up the unit's production capabilities, writes
Phil Taylor.
Troubled dosage form company BioProgress has taken its first action
to restructure its finances in the wake of its recent problems with
increasing overheads and slower trading at its US subsidiary.
UK dosage form specialist BioProgress gave the first insight into
its much-anticipated strategic review yesterday, just over a month
after the departure of former CEO Graham Hind, reports Phil
Taylor.
UK company CI Electronics is rolling out a new tablet and capsule
weighing system, the SADE SP, in North America via local
distributor AC Compacting, reports Phil Taylor.
GlaxoSmithKline is planning to use a series of packaging and
on-tablet technologies to prevent parallel trade in its HIV drugs
Combivir (zidovudine and lamivudine) and Epivir (lamivudine),
writes Phil Taylor.
BioProgress has appointed Richard Trevillion as chief
executive, bolstering its executive management just over a month
after the dosage film specialist issued a trading statement that
sparked a 40 per cent slump in its UK-listed shares,...
Belgium's Printing International introduced a single-station
version of its ultra high quality (UHQ) tablet printing technology
into the US market via local distributor AC Compacting.
Mathis Instruments has introduced a wireless version of its
effusivity sensor - the ESP - that is suitable for use in
pharmaceutical production settings, reports Phil Taylor.
Pfizer's recently acquired UK business Meridica has supplied the
first Xcelodose automated encapsulator system to a contract
research company in North America.
Johnson & Johnson is planning to acquire TransForm
Pharmaceuticals, a privately held company that specialises in the
discovery of improved formulations and novel crystalline forms of
drug molecules, in a cash-for-stock deal valued...
BioProgress of the UK says that the commercial version of its
TABWRAP tablet-coating machine should be launched at this year's
Conference on Pharmaceutical Ingredients (CPhI) meeting in
November, reports Phil Taylor.
UK processing and packaging machinery specialist Isopak has added
to its product range with a spiral jet mill - intended for
pharmaceutical laboratories and R&D departments - that can
micronise very small batches of powder.
Cerestar Food & Pharma Specialties Europe has launched an
excipient that it claims allows tablets to be produced using lower
compression force, which should result in reduced wear and tear on
tabletting machinery and operational...
UK laser marking specialist Sherwood Technology now has two
pharmaceutical companies evaluating its DataLase technology, an
additive that can be used to mark tablets.
A new safety training scheme, designed to deliver accredited
'safety passports' for service engineers and other outside
contractors working in pharmaceutical, healthcare, toiletries and
cosmetics factories has been introduced...
Irish biopharma firm Alltracel Pharmaceuticals has reinforced its
position in the dissolvable film market with a reverse takeover of
London firm Westone Products.
Researchers at AstraZeneca in Sweden have been granted a US patent
on a new film coating for tablets that can be carried out in
water-based conditions, doing away with the need for use of organic
solvent-based systems.
A non-animal alternative to gelatin capsules made its European
entry as Capsugel used the CpHi show to launch the latest addition
to its range of two-piece capsules. The product claims to offer
customers better control with no slow...
German chemicals group BASF has launched two new pharmaceutical
film-coating products, cementing its position in a market estimated
to be worth about €200 million and growing at 5 to 6 per cent a
year.
A new weighing system developed by BOC Edwards Pharmaceutical
systems can be used in a pharmaceutical filling line but does not
come into contact with the weighed materials.
Niro Pharma Systems recently launched a new laboratory fluid bed -
the STREA-1 - for the processing of fine powders, pellets,
granules, crystals, tablets and organic solvents. The system,
developed by Aeromatic-Fielder, is designed...
AstraZeneca has started construction a €30 million tablet
manufacturing plant in Egypt that could form a springboard for an
expansion into emerging markets.
In-Pharmatechnologist.com's periodic round-up of manufacturing
developments from around the world sees Fujisawa expanding in
Ireland, Solvay partnering in Russia, Vietnam's machinery firms
undercutting competitors and...
UK cellulose film specialist BioProgress has won another round in
its patent dispute with Stanelco Fibre Optics over the use of
radiofrequency welding to make polymer capsules.
Novis, now with almost half a million readers, last week earned
broad industry recognition with two further publishing awards,
following on from its best publication prize earlier this year.
BioProgress, a developer of film strips and cellulose-based
capsules for drug and vitamin delivery, is increasing its
international presence, signing its first agreement for a line of
products for the Chinese market.
GEA, a subsidiary of mg technologies, today announced that it has
acquired the business of Messo-Chemietechnik, which specialises in
crystallisation technologies for the biotechnology, pharmachem and
food industries.
The US Food and Drug Administration will start using a risk-based
approach for prioritising site inspections for certain
pharmaceutical products, the agency has announced in a final report
on its current good manufacturing practice...
In a dispute with Stanelco Fibre Optics, Bioprogress Technology has
been awarded outright ownership of a master patent giving it
exclusive rights to the process of making capsules from
non-gelatine materials by means of radio frequency...
In contrast to conventional wisdom, stirring a mix of granular
ingredients faster or longer in the manufacturing of
pharmaceuticals is not the key to getting a smooth blend.
Freeman Technology is gearing up to launch the first in a new range
of accessories for its FT4 powder rheometer that are designed to
bring it into the age of industrial automation.
Niro Pharma Systems is launching a new tablet coating system that
promises to achieve a step forward in the evenness of tablet
coating and make the production of small batches for R&D more
cost effective.
In-Pharmatechnologist's periodic round-up of personnel moves in the
pharmaceutical sector includes a change in leadership at the
Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry and a new
managing director at tabletting and...
Mettler Toledo, the world's largest manufacturer of weighing
instruments, has reported a healthy 8 per cent hike in sales for
the first half of 2004, helped by favourable currency factors.
Calling the next six months 'a critical period', the US Food and
Drug Administration's Acting Commissioner Lester Crawford has
unveiled a lengthy list of agency priorities, including continued
work on Good Manufacturing...
The market for generic drugs is going to expand from its present
level of $35 billion (€29bn) to $80 billion in 2008, as
cash-strapped healthcare payors turn increasingly to cheaper
options.
UK encapsulation specialist BioProgress has signed a license option
deal for a liquid fill technology with the consumer healthcare
division of US drug major Wyeth. If taken to fruition, the
agreement would mark the company's...
Innercap Technologies has developed a new capsule drug delivery
system that makes it possible to combine two incompatible drug
compounds into a single dosage unit.
German pharmaceutical and chemicals supplier Merck KGaA has set up
a new business unit to try and establish how some of the company's
pigments can be used as brand protection technologies.
Banner Pharmacaps has entered into an agreement to introduce its
non-animal-derived softgel capsules in Japan for pharmaceutical and
nutritional applications.
France's Stedim and Integrated Biosystems have been awarded two new
patents on their Celsius line of containers, currently being
launched in Europe and US, that are used in the production of
biopharmaceuticals.
US water-soluble films company MonoSol has bought the UK division
of Aquafilm, giving it access to substantial manufacturing
capabilities in Europe and its range of edible films, report
Phil Taylor and Dominique Patton.
The US Food and Drug Administration is planning to hold a meeting
in June to re-examine its regulations on electronic records and
signatures, used to generate the audit trail in the food and drug
industries, to examine whether some...
Distek has developed a new product in its range of devices for
testing how well pharmaceutical tablets dissolve that does not need
a water bath. The benefit? A reduction in maintenance, faster
throughput and less system vibration...
Danish biotechnology company LifeCycle Pharma has won a contract
with Italy's Recordati to develop an improved formulation of
Zanidip (lercanidipine), used for the treatment of hypertension,
reports Phil Taylor.
Isopak, a company specialising in small-scale pharmaceutical
production equipment, will introduce a new machine next month that
overcomes one of the major obstacles to making capsules that can
deliver liquid medications.
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