Pharming has entered into a toll manufacturing agreement with Sanofi Chemie to boost capacity, secure supply and lower costs of Ruconest (conestat alfa).
Contract services major Quintiles will sell Movetis’ chronic constipation treatment Resolor (prucalopride) in Europe under a contract announced last week.
Reaxa will set up an Indian subsidiary to manage supply chain, commercial scale production and application development for its growing number of customers in the country.
India’s Shasun Chemicals officially closed its pharmaceutical manufacturing plant near Annan in Scotland today yesterday, a little under six months after saying that it was ‘underused’ and could not be kept on as a going concern
Liverpool, UK-based biologics specialist Eden Biodesign has won three new manufacturing contracts - worth a total of £3m (€3.5m) – from clients in Europe and Asia.
Contract development firm Azopharma has established a new laboratory facility in Welwyn Garden City, UK, which it hopes will facilitate its move into the European market.
RCP Therapeutics, a developer of regenerative medicine, hopes that its new HQ in the UK will benefit from the country’s status as a financial centre and proximity to cost effective trial sites in Eastern Europe.
Two chemical company directors have been sentenced for not notifying authorities that their company produced a substance controlled under the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).
United Drug has just purchased two UK services firms for a sum of
£14.4m, in a continuation of what has been a highly-acquisitive
past year for the ambitious firm.
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.
Two of the UK's top contract sales organisations (CSO) have merged
to create what is claimed to be the country's leading CSO -
something that is disputed by its nearest rival.
Amgen are to create a European Development Centre in the UK,
significantly increasing UK R&D employee numbers. Amgen's
announcement echoes the UK Government's commitment to attract more
R&D investment with a view...
United Drug of Ireland has acquired TD Packaging, a UK-based
company which supplies the international pharmaceutical and
healthcare industries, in a deal valued at up to £11.4 million
(€17.1m), 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.
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.
UK packaging equipment supplier Isopak has introduced an all-in-one
system designed to eliminate the difficulties of handling and
packing pharmaceuticals, foods and cosmetics in sachets.
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...
The structure and remit of the European Medicines Evaluation Agency
(EMEA) will be overhauled from 20 May to give it a stronger
advisory role to industry, the healthcare profession and patients.
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...
The UK's recently adopted standard for child resistance in
non-recloseable pharmaceutical packaging such as blister packs
contains a serious flaw that must be addressed, according to
Stephen Wilkins, secretary of the UK's...
Cardinal Health has said that it will not be proceeding with a $100
million (€78m) information technology and manufacturing facility in
Longford, Ireland.
The pharmaceutical industry has welcomed the passage of new
legislation by the UK Parliament that will give police new powers
to intervene in public order offences, including those carried out
by animal extremist groups.
A partnership has been formed between Krauss-Maffei Process
Technology UK and Buss-SMS, an international supplier of thermal
separation solutions for difficult to handle mixtures.
The British Pharmacopoeia 2003 is due to be available in the next
few days, and from today can be ordered online; updates have also
been released from the European equivalent.
The UK biotechnology industry is gearing up for yet another bout of
consolidation with the news that British Biotech has made a £48
million (€73m) offer for Vernalis.
The UK has launched a new study to examine in detail the benefits
and risks of nanotechnology and make sure that any necessary
regulatory framework is in place early on
Cambridge Antibody Technology of the UK has signed up for a
non-exclusive licence to a technology, developed by Canada's
Chromos Molecular Systems, for the commercial manufacture of
biologics.
London zoo was the setting last week for UK inspection body Select
QA to formally receive certification from the United Kingdom
Accreditation Service, involving the company in a new scheme for
the food packaging industry.