The Challenge of Change - Managing Excipients Control
Colorcon
10-Nov-2010 - Gerresheimer will open a representative office in Mumbai India this week as part of its growth strategy to capitalise in emerging markets.
09-Nov-2010 - Sharp Corporation has joined the TraceLink Network to provide production visibility and serialisation services for life sciences customers.
04-Nov-2010 - Sales and profits increased at West Pharmaceutical Services in Q3, but rising manufacturing costs hit drug packaging systems earnings.
04-Nov-2010 - Collaboration between four companies is supporting clients’ serialisation and ePedigree needs to ensure patient safety, prevent counterfeiting and limit diversion.
02-Nov-2010 - Baxter International will sell its US generic injectables business to UK-based manufacturer Hikma Pharmaceuticals
26-Oct-2010 - ATMI opens new packaging plant in China; positions for growth of bioprocess business in Asia and sees modest growth of life sciences business in Q3.
26-Oct-2010 - West has launched the Daikyo Crystal Zenith 1ml long insert needle syringe system to meet demand for break-resistant delivery options.
25-Oct-2010 - Unilife wins US Department of Agriculture (USDA) as guarantor for new manufacturing facility and global headquarters in York, Pennsylvania, US.
21-Oct-2010 - iGPS is offering what it claims is the world’s first pallet rental service to supply plastic pallets with embedded radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to the pharmaceutical and life sciences industries.
19-Oct-2010 - Microscan has introduced a system for inspecting and verifying package label content that can be implemented with the minimum of cost and effort.
18-Oct-2010 - Pfizer has invested £26.3m ($41.7m) into a new facility at its biotech packaging and distribution site in Havant, UK.
14-Oct-2010 - Biopharm sees a large future for packaging containing digital codes that can link mobile devices to content, according to Catalent.
11-Oct-2010 - Pfizer has hired Morgan Stanley to review its Capsugel business unit with the possibility of selling the maker of capsules for oral medicines and dietary supplements.
06-Oct-2010 - Pack-Smart and ISRA Surface Vision have developed a system to compare folded cartons against print quality requirements at speeds of up to 300 metres per minute.
30-Sep-2010 - High production volumes, a reduction in the total cost of ownership, flexibility and a speedy delivery time are benefits claimed by Bosch for its new range of infeed systems launched this week at FachPack in Germany.
28-Sep-2010 - Catalent licenses Digimarc’s embedded data packaging technology to take authentication and brand awareness into digital age.
27-Sep-2010 - Helvoet Pharma breaks begins construction of INR1.2bn ($26.5m) primary packaging plant which, it hopes, will help boost export volumes.
22-Sep-2010 - Intelsius, formerly DGP Group, has introduced Orcatherm to address the increasing pharma industry need for temperature-controlled packaging and regulatory compliant sample transport solutions.
16-Sep-2010 - Rexam and Med Time Technology, a US manufacturer of plastic prescription vials, have launched “Pill Timer,” a packaging solution designed to boost treatment compliance rates.
16-Sep-2010 - Amcor says soaring raw material costs are behind its announcement to increase prices for most of its flexible packaging products.
14-Sep-2010 - US demand for pharmaceutical packaging is expected to increase by 5.5 per cent a year and top $18.4bn in 2014, according to a new study.
14-Sep-2010 - Sanofi Pasteur has filed a sBLA with the FDA for an intradermal form of influenza vaccine Fluzone using a microinjection system.
09-Sep-2010 - The Norwegian “green packaging” company, TimeTemp AS, intends to develop, produce and market freshness and quality indicators to the pharmaceutical industry that can be attached to cartons or pallets to determine the shelf life of a product.
09-Sep-2010 - Verayo and SkyeTek have partnered with GlobalPCCA to provide a low-cost RFID authentication system to fight counterfeits in Africa.
08-Sep-2010 - Sanofi-Aventis is discontinuing use of old insulin pen devices in the UK in response to NPSA guidance.