The Challenge of Change - Managing Excipients Control
Colorcon
16-Feb-2011 - Japanese pharma giant, Daiichi Sankyo Inc. (DSI) has announced the acquisition of its first US-based packaging and manufacturing plant.
15-Feb-2011 - Unilife saw its losses increase in the second quarter of fiscal 2011 on the lack of industrialisation revenue, higher R&D spending and the cost of its move to the US.
14-Feb-2011 - Gerresheimer has reported sales and earnings growth for the fiscal year 2010, citing demand from customers in the pharmaceutical industry as key.
27-Jan-2011 - Medisafe 1 Technologies is to enter the pharma anti-counterfeiting sector through development of a barcode system.
27-Jan-2011 - Oystar has sold its Brazilian unit, Oystar Fabrima, to Sao Paulo-headquartered firm Masipack in an effort to focus its business on country’s the primary and secondary packaging markets.
20-Jan-2011 - The US FDA has rejected MannKind’s inhaled insulin Afrezza and called for more clinical trials to prove the product’s “Dreamboat” delivery tech is comparable to the MedTone device used in earlier studies.
20-Jan-2011 - All Indian pharma exports will soon require barcodes on primary, secondary and tertiary packaging as part of anti-counterfeiting efforts.
18-Jan-2011 - The UK NHS will award a prize to innovations that increase patient compliance and, as a result, help it make better use of resources.
18-Jan-2011 - Fairfield Group has introduced a scanner capable of reading 1D barcodes, Pharmacodes and 2D data matrices used on pharmaceutical packaging.
17-Jan-2011 - German technology group Schott and Japan’s Naigai Glass Industry Company have teamed up to enter the country’s pharmaceutical packaging market.
13-Jan-2011 - Expansion has been a theme for German pharmaceutical packaging firms of late with the acquisition of Seidenader Maschinenbau by the Kober Group following just weeks after Edelmann bought a stake in Hungary’s Zalai Nyomda
10-Jan-2011 - Cultural diversity within India underpins differing attitudes to oral dose pharmaceutical packaging and this could impact on prescribing habits.
10-Jan-2011 - The United States Pharmacopeia (USP) says proposed new labelling standards for prescription pharmaceuticals will improve patient safety and reduce drug misuse.
05-Jan-2011 - Demand for compliant, patient safe packs will help drive the global blister packaging market to a total value of $32.5bn by 2015, according to new research.
23-Dec-2010 - West Pharmaceutical Services plans to move into new 171,000 sq ft headquarters, with office and laboratory space, in Pennsylvania, US by 2013.
08-Dec-2010 - West Pharmaceutical Services will close a plant in Pennsylvania, US and sell part of a factory Cornwall in the UK to reorganise production operations ahead of impending contract expiries.
08-Dec-2010 - Glenroy has launched a flexible packaging smartphone app that allows users to calculate specifications such as roll weight, footage and diameter.
08-Dec-2010 - Packaging machinery specialist Oystar has announced that it is now able to conduct business without outside financing for the first time since the economic crisis hit.
02-Dec-2010 - Mandatory guidelines for labelling of OTC liquid medication for children should be issued, said researchers who found major inconsistencies in labels and dosage measuring devices.
01-Dec-2010 - India-headquartered pharmaceutical packaging manufacturer Bilcare has rolled out a new unit, Bilcare Research, which merges its existing films and foil businesses with those of recent acquisition Ineous Films.
01-Dec-2010 - Cambridge Consultants and Sun Pharma have developed a dry powder inhaler that administers a metered dose of the drug to the deep lung, regardless of the strength of the patient’s intake of breath.
01-Dec-2010 - Recognition of glass vial quality issues is supporting interest in West’s analytical capabilities and Crystal Zenith (CZ) products, new sizes of which are being developed, said a company VP.
29-Nov-2010 - The primary containers and drug delivery system production company, Gerresheimer AG, is further investing in prefilled syringes with the launch of a new production line.
22-Nov-2010 - Globalisation is the main challenge to drug supply chain security according to USP scientist Desmond Hunt, who says greater collaboration is the key to maintaining product integrity
18-Nov-2010 - Syringe maker Unilife attributed increased first-quarter losses to higher expenditure, costs associated with relocation to the US and the construction of its new global headquarters and production facility in York, Pennsylvania.