In an exclusive Q&A Mark Rohlfing, Almac’s director of Quality, updates Outsourcing-pharma on the firm’s new North American HQ, growth plans and US recruitment drive.
Schott Pharmaceutical Packaging has revealed details of its US-based ready-to-fill syringe production line capabilities in a manufacturing sector that has traditionally been the strong hold of countries like Germany and France.
Demand for Cerep’s pharmacological profiling services picked up in the second quarter and it believes this, coupled to cost savings and commencement of delayed contracts, will help it improve in the second half of 2009.
US CRO PPD has laid off around 80 people at its HQ in Wilmington, North Carolina and may cut another 200 jobs from its North American workforce, according to local media reports.
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.
Jubilant Organosys, India's largest custom research and manufacturing services (CRAMS) provider, has reorganised its business in North America in the wake of its recent acquisitions of HollisterStier Laboratories and Draxis Specialty Pharmaceuticals.
India's Jubilant Organosys has made good on promises to make
acquisitions in the contract research and manufacturing services
(CRAMS) sector with a $255m deal to buy Draxis Health of Canada.
An Indian contract research and manufacturing services (CRAMS) firm
is planning to plant its roots in the US to try and drum up more
business in this lucrative market.
UK-based microdosing specialist Xceleron has announced its
expansion with the takeover of a new facility in the US, two years
after setting up a business base in the region.
Indian custom chemical synthesis firm Denisco has opened up shop in
the US to capitalise on the growing demand in North America for
high-quality, low-cost complex organic molecules.
Despite hurdles such as manufacturing overcapacity, limited drug
approvals and intense competition from Asian companies, a new
report from market research analysts Frost & Sullivan predicts
revenues in the North American fine...
Swiss QC specialist SGS has opened a laboratory in Singapore for
the contract testing of pharmaceuticals, biopharmaceuticals and
medical devices, eying a budding market which seems hungry for
outsourcing.
Drug production company Patheon has released its fourth-quarter
results, which has revealed that profit has jumped 180 per cent
despite a recent production halt at a Puerto Rican subsidiary. This
bodes well for the recent manufacturing...
US paperboard and plastic packaging company Chesapeake is to
acquire Impaxx Pharmaceutical Packaging Group, which does business
as Arlington Press, for $65 million (€52.5m).
Growth in Asian and South American markets boost sales for Danish
firm Chr Hansen, counterbalancing a fall in revenue in North
America for the first quarter of the year.
The ingredients division of Danish company Chr Hansen pulled in a
DKK 369 million (€49m) profit for the fiscal year on sales of DKK
3.4 billion (€460m), a slight dip on the previous year on rising
costs.
Delivery of millions of doses of Acambis' smallpox vaccine to the
US government has been delayed because of a disagreement over the
best glue to use for the vial labels.