Xellia has agreed to invest $100m in equipment, retain staff and create 40 full time jobs at the plant it bought in Raleigh, North Carolina in return for business incentives.
GEA Pharma Systems has extended its agency agreement with India’s Ace Technologies to include its range of lyophil freeze-dryers in a bid to further open up the market.
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.
US CMO Formatech has brought a new Virtis Benchmark 3000 luophilizer into service at its manufacturing facility in Andover, Massachusetts, boosting capacity by 13,000 vials per production run.
EnWave says that its freezeREV dehydration technology can reduce the moisture content of single vial vaccines to between 3 and 3.5 per cent, bettering the mark achieved by its bioREV platform.
Canada-based Draxis Health has passed a US Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) inspection with flying colours after
contracting out its manufacturing services to two new clients.
The excipients used in a protein formulation and the method of
production can impact not just the physical and chemical stability
of biologics but also their in vitro and in vivo
performance, cautions Durect's executive director...
Italian packaging and processing machinery company IMA Group has
booked more than 1,100 square metres of space at this year's
Achema, determined to push its products ranging from solid dose
processing to labelling and tube filling.
The GEA Group has completed an agreement to acquire Steris's freeze
dryer (lyophiliser) product line, in a deal that aims to strengthen
the group's Process Engineering Division in the Process Engineering
Segment.
Genevac has introduced new technology for its Model HT-4X
centrifugal evaporator whereby the system can be used to accelerate
lyophilisation of water and water mixtures by as much as three
hundred per cent.
Switzerland's Buchi has launched a small-scale oven for
freeze-drying samples that puts the technology within reach of
laboratories that might baulk at the cost of investing in a larger
system.
