Vapourtec has made two new additions to its Flow Chemistry platform
available as the company make headway in an emerging field, which
aims to speed up laboratory processes in drug discovery.
Processing specialist Sartorius Stedim Biotech today announced a
cooperation and supply deal with systems manufacturing firm Paul
Mueller Company for the US market, with a production facility in
Pennsylvania set to close as a result.
NPIL Pharma last week told workers at its former Pfizer plant in
Morpeth, UK that the company is considering hiving off jobs in a
bid to maintain the site's viability.
Boehringer Ingelheim has been forced to announce the planned
closure of a UK manufacturing site as a result of pricing pressures
that mean the firm is unable to produce unit dose vials (UDVs) at
the site cost-effectively.
Novartis has hooked up with the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) to fund a project aimed at 'revolutionising'
pharmaceutical manufacturing and doing away with traditional
batch-based production techniques.
German packaging company Gerresheimer has received recognition for
its packaging expertise again after winning the German Packaging
Award the second year in a row.
German pharma firm Stada has acquired Russian pharmaceuticals group
Makiz in a deal worth up to €135m, giving the company a sturdy
foothold in the growing Russian market and enhanced in-house
production capacity.
In the latest episode of the Viracept contamination case, the drug
is now at risk of losing its marketing authorisation across Europe
while the dangers posed by the chemical contaminant are established
and manufacturer Roche rectifies...
Siemens is offering software support for the implementation of
Process Analytical Technology (PAT) in the pharmaceutical industry
with the launch of its Sipat package.
As single-use technologies become more and more popular for use in
biopharmaceutical manufacturing, Pall is following market demands
bolstering its product line by adding a number of disposable
products to its portfolio.
Technology and services provider Althea Technologies has stepped
closer to a significant increase in manufacturing capacity as it
announces the completion of the first phase of construction at its
new San Diego facility.
UK drug goliath GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is ramping up drug production
at its Polish site as it prepares to more than double the number of
markets the plant will supply.
Biotech contract manufacturer Diosynth and PDL Biopharma have
extended their agreement for the commercial supply of PDL's heart
attack treatment Retavase (reteplase), a move that signals the end
of manufacturing issues PDL experienced...
Icelandic pharmaceutical Actavis has snapped up an Indian
manufacturing plant in a move to take advantage of lower
manufacturing costs for exports to the US and Europe.
Biologic drug manufacturing is slowly starting to take off in
Singapore and is expected to be a key component of the country's
drug manufacturing activity in the future.
Baxter is expanding its lyophilisation capacity at its German
facility to support future growth of its contract manufacturing
business for anti-cancer drugs.
A liquidation sale will be held to offload unwanted manufacturing
equipment at a plant formerly owned by Pfizer - much of which is
new and was never turned on or certified.
Drug maker Eli Lilly has completed the first phase of a $560m
(€446m) expansion of its biotech facility in Indianapolis, US, in
order to match the growing number of biological drugs in its
pipeline.
Firms engaging in both in-house and contract pharma manufacturing
generally display inferior performance compared to manufacturers
conducting only in-house production, according to new research.
Pfizer CentreSource has decided to outsource the manufacture of some of its active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) to two Asian contract manufacturers and intends to work with the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) during the process.
Injection molder and contract manufacturer Tech Group is relocating
its Grand Rapids plant to a new molding facility in nearby Walker,
Michigan, which will be expanded to cope with the high demand for
medical devices and components.
A good selection process, with a realistic set of selection
criteria is essential when looking for the right contract
manufacturing partner, according to a new Datamonitor report.
The recovery that has taken packaging and processing machinery
company IMA to profitability in 2006 has continued, helped by new
opportunities in the biotech sector and a strong growth in
generics.
Millipore launch its version of a tangential flow filtration (TFF)
device for the filtration of monoclonal antibodies and other
therapeutic proteins that form an integral part of the drug
discovery process and development cycle.
New guidelines for the import and manufacture of medical devices in
India have now come into effect, aimed at increasing world
confidence in medical devices made in the region.
Microsoft has awarded Pfizer with its Pharmaceutical and Life
Sciences Innovation Award for its manufacturing management system
which revolutionalises the scaling up and monitoring of active
pharmaceutical ingredient (API) production,...
Biotechnology firm Invitrogen has opened a new facility in New York
which can make its Advanced Granulation Technology (AGT) media
totally free of animal origin components while addressing key
bottlenecks in drug production.
A new e-learning course promises to cover everything one needs to
know about demanding current good manufacturing practice (cGMP)
topics such as standard operating procedures (SOPs).
While European producers of active pharmaceutical ingredients
(APIs) will see their share of the global market fall in the next
few years, Asian markets are growing at phenomenal rates, with
India set to supplant Italy as the second...
US packaging specialist, Comar, chose Interphex, New York, to
launch its new custom design and production service for
pharmaceutical packaging, offering customers a free initial
consultation.
Screening and processing equipment supplier Kason, were out in
force at InterPhex 2006, with a range of products that aid the
manufacturing industry meet stringent pharmaceutical sanitary
requirements.
Italian packaging and processing machinery company IMA Group has
posted a net profit of €13m for 2005, down 24 per cent from 2004,
since a rise in revenues was offset by one-off charges, operating
costs and a reduction in prices as...
Manufacturers of single-use process components and systems within
the biopharma industry in the US have launched a new alliance at
Interphex to educate, standardise, and develop guidelines that
safeguard the quality of drugs produced...
The Optima Group's presence at this year's Interphex show in New
York was significant as it gave In-PharmaTechnologist.com the first
look at the Group's recently implemented shift in focus, resulting
in a product range...
The new Automated Emitted Dose (AED) system from Astech allows for
in-line emitted dose testing of inhalers, saving time and money by
generating results from the production line which determine whether
full batch production should...
Robin Engineering Services has made its first foray into selling
machinery exclusively for the pharma industry in a deal with Indian
manufacturer Chamunda. The partnership will slash the cost of
tableting machinery and fluidised bed...
Chemical manufacturing giant BASF is building an alkylethanolamine
(AEOA) plant at its US site in Louisiana, as increasing American
demand pushes the company to increase worldwide production
capacities for these important intermediates...
Promed is due to start operations at its new research centre in
India, New Deli, this month, in a move that will bring the company
closer to becoming a global provider of drug development and supply
services.
Analytic technology company Ometric is promising to revolutionalise
quality control with software that achieves real-time, in-line
final product testing at a rate of five tablets per second,
minimising product recalls, reducing waste...
