DSM has confirmed that three workers were killed at the weekend after an industrial accident at its food and pharmaceutical ingredient plant in southern Italy.
Novozymes Biopharma has published data demonstrating the ability of Recombumin, an excipient, to protect against aggregation, oxidation and non-specific adsorption.
CDMO Haupt Pharma has invested in a combined heat and power unit (CPHU) for its site in Wolfratshausen, Germany, which is now expected to produce 14 per cent less CO2 a year.
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.
Polestar Technologies has launched its iDOT single-use pH and dissolved oxygen sensor, which can be welded into the walls of disposable reactors to provide in situ process monitoring.
With the price of crude oil going up almost every day it is no
surprise that this has a knock-on effect to the price of raw
materials for the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. But DSM
and Roquette have developed a process that...
Waters and Thar Instruments have agreed to deepen their
collaboration to combine their strengths in mass spectrometry (MS)
and super critical fluid chromatography (SFC) to make separation
science 'greener'.
In a bid to push manufacturers to reduce their greenhouse gas
emissions, the UK government last week unveiled a proposal that
could pave the way for "carbon footprint" labels on products.
Dutch researchers have developed a new way of making a Parkinson's
disease drug using an inexpensive ionic liquid method that could
yield cost savings of €11.3 million per annum.
A small spin-out company formed by the University of Colorado has
been awarded a $850,000 (€670,000) grant from the US government to
develop a dry powder inhalable version of Nabi's investigational
injectable vaccine for nicotine...
Activotec makes available an entry-level Supercritical Fluid
Extractor (SFE) to suit routine analytical work in smaller
laboratories that might require many features typically found in
more costly SFE equipment.
Novasep Process launches its latest Supercritical Fluid
Chromatography unit, which aims to cut time and operating costs by
incorporating an automated CO2 recycling feature making it suitable
for purification process development, laboratory...
Researchers have put forward a unique process for 'cleaning'
volatile organic compounds - a process that could have considerable
importance to organic compounds that are used in the pharmaceutical
manufacturing process.
Witt Gas Technologies has launched a new version of its Leak-Master
packaging integrity tester in the UK that could pay for itself in
terms of cost savings in as little as two months, claims the
company.
One of the most chemically benign separation processes could for
the first time be made available to manufacturers in the
pharmaceutical industry, thanks to pioneering work carried out by
researchers in the US.
Researchers in the UK and US have made a breakthrough by using
supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2) as a reaction medium for the
preparation of molecules of interest to the pharmaceutical
industry. The result could be cleaner, greener...
Drug re-engineering company Eiffel Technologies will add to its
existing project in improving insulin delivery with the start of
clinical trials of an in-house product early next year, writes
Wai Lang Chu.