The Challenge of Change - Managing Excipients Control
Colorcon
27-Feb-2007 - West Pharmaceutical Services posted healthy financial results for 2006, with sales of the inhalable insulin device for Pfizer's Exubera significantly contributing to the results reported by the firm's Tech Group business segment.
26-Feb-2007 - Companies making outstanding contributions to the healthcare industry were honoured last week at a glittering awards evening celebrating Frost & Sullivan's Excellence in Healthcare awards, 2006.
26-Feb-2007 - German firm Sartorius has merged its biotech unit with biopharmaceutical supplier Stedim Biosystems, forming a company anticipated to generate sales of €400-420m during 2007.
26-Feb-2007 - Ranbaxy has been granted an EU manufacturing and import license for its Romania-based Terapia Ranbaxy subsidiary, and says it will make the company a strategic regional hub for its operations in Europe.
23-Feb-2007 - A round up of recent product releases from across the industry.
23-Feb-2007 - A new process engineering service aims to improve workflow efficiency by using advanced models to identify and eliminate laboratory bottlenecks and plan for future changes.
22-Feb-2007 - Johnson Matthey's metal scavenging system, Smopex, is designed to remove precious metals at high speed from solutions and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs).
22-Feb-2007 - After shedding two of its unwanted divisions, a leaner Cambrex has decided to channel its energy into its high potency development (HiPO) business.
21-Feb-2007 - Pharmaceutical services group Almac Sciences has teamed up with enzyme catalyst firm BioCatalytics on process development and manufacture of chiral intermediates and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs).
20-Feb-2007 - US firm Abraxis BioScience has been issued a firm warning by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) following concerns about contamination of drug products and marketing violations for several drugs.
20-Feb-2007 - Biotechnology firm Codexis has launched its Codex biocatalyst panels, which promise to increase R&D and manufacturing productivity while reducing cost.
20-Feb-2007 - Israeli-based Chemada has announced that heavy brines can be used as solvent in pharmaceutical applications to cut waste and costs. The company made the announcement at last week's InformexUSA show in San Francisco.
19-Feb-2007 - The collaboration between DSM Pharmaceutical Products and biotechnology firm Crucell has raised the bar for antibody production, whilst decreasing manufacturing costs.
16-Feb-2007 - A round up of recent product releases from across the industry.
16-Feb-2007 - High demand of Syrris' batch and flow chemistry reactors has forced them to double their sales force to cope with demand.
16-Feb-2007 - The new 'whole' DNA microarray promises to lower the cost and increase the speed of drug discovery processes.
15-Feb-2007 - Invitrogen has decided to sell BioReliance, the 'beleaguered' pharmaceutical services arm of its business, for less than half the price they paid for it just three years ago.
14-Feb-2007 - UK contract research organisation (CRO) Geneservice has announced its acquisition of the DNA sequencing facility in the University of Oxford's Biochemistry Department.
14-Feb-2007 - The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) has released its latest industry guide, covering the commissioning and qualification of pharmaceutical water and steam systems.
13-Feb-2007 - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have issued Kentucky-based Omnicare with a blunt warning letter outlining the firm's quality and safety lapses at its repackaging facility in Toledo.
09-Feb-2007 - Applied Biosystems are soon to launch their next generation genetic analysis platform into a market that should allow a whole new wave of biological understanding.
09-Feb-2007 - Bigger is not necessarily better in the UK's laboratory equipment market, with smaller firms often outperforming their larger rivals.
08-Feb-2007 - US-based sterile experts Mediatech has entered into a business agreement with US-based packaging and filling supplier Rapak to market and sell aseptic filling equipment to satisfy a gap in the market.
08-Feb-2007 - Italy's Bonfiglioli Engineering has launched a leak testing machine for syringes, with the ability to check and remove syringes that are faulty before leaving the factory.
08-Feb-2007 - Inyx, Cobra and EaglePicher have all featured in new contract manufacturing announcements in the past week.