The Challenge of Change - Managing Excipients Control
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16-Oct-2006 - Excelsyn Molecular Development claims to have made a "major advance" in a protein intensification process that can be used to slash the manufacturing costs of a range of amino acids.
16-Oct-2006 - As it looks to the "future of pharmaceuticals," Sandoz is planning a "powerful biopharmaceuticals programme" with the construction of a new biopharmaceuticals development centre in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
12-Oct-2006 - Filter maker Pall Corporation has announced its plan to invest about $50m (€63.5m) to expand its life sciences manufacturing operations in Puerto Rico and take advantage the island's low tax regime.
12-Oct-2006 - Rhodia was present at this year's CPhI, alerting the industry to its latest product updates, spawned out of the market demand to provide products that allow its customers to better address process and handling requirements.
11-Oct-2006 - Raylo Chemical says that it has reduced its manufacturing cycles by up to 20 per cent and as a result saved hundreds of thousands of dollars per year after it installed new pH sensing technology.
10-Oct-2006 - Agilent Technologies has chosen Distek to be its number-one provider for dissolution instrumentation service in North America under its Lab Resource Management (LRM) programme.
10-Oct-2006 - Cardinal Health says it is experiencing a "robust market" for its cell line engineering technology, as it attracts the attention of pharma giant Wyeth and executes capacity expansion plans its for full service offerings in the field.
10-Oct-2006 - Reaxa has chose the recent CphI to announce it is developing a new addition to its range of scavenging resins that it claims allows a huge reduction in product loss in the process of precious metals clean-up.
04-Oct-2006 - UK-based Tepnel Scientific Services has launched a new pharmaceutical outsourcing solution - disinfectant testing - aimed at the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries, as well as disinfectant manufacturers.
04-Oct-2006 - Following numerous manufacturing failures, Discovery Laboratories believes it has resolved the stability issues that have plagued Surfaxin, its experimental respiratory treatment for infants, and is now seeking a meeting with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to address its concerns.
03-Oct-2006 - Icon Laboratories, a provider of outsourced services for the biopharma industry, has expanded its central lab facilities in Ireland by 30 per cent to meet growing demand for clinical trial testing services.
03-Oct-2006 - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued new advice to aid manufacturers in developing safe and effective cell-based viral vaccines, hoping it can modernise America's manufacturing network and speed up production.
03-Oct-2006 - A majority stake in Irish biotechnology contract services firm Archport has been snapped up by German-based Chemie Uetikon as the bio-outsourcing market heats up.
02-Oct-2006 - Drug manufacturers can better understand how they can achieve regulatory compliance and avoid production stoppages and recalls by following new guidance issued by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
28-Sep-2006 - With the first clinical trial of its cell culture-based seasonal influenza vaccine commencing in the US, Sanofi Pasteur has demonstrated the production scale potential of a cell line in a successful bioreactor run of 20,000L.
28-Sep-2006 - Targeting the market for drug metabolite identification and biomarker discovery, Tandem Labs has acquired PharmaKD, a Massachussets-based division of Linden Technologies.
26-Sep-2006 - Chemir Analytical Services, the new owner of Gateway Chemical Technology, has renamed the custom chemical analysis business IQsynthesis in a revamp effort.
26-Sep-2006 - The UK subsidiary of Nicholas Piramal (NPIL) is working on a new catalyst-based racemisation technology called SCRAM that delivers significantly improved process yields in the production of chiral amines and alcohols, cutting cost and environmental waste.
26-Sep-2006 - Analytical instrument maker Thermo Electron has announced the introduction of the world's first electronic pipette with a backlit display to improve lab manual pipetting.
26-Sep-2006 - Ferro Pfanstiehl Laboratories has commissioned a new validated current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) supercritical fluid-based particle engineering pilot facility, offering sizing, purification and formulation services to its pharmaceutical customers.
25-Sep-2006 - Moving from egg-based production of vaccines to the use of cell-culture technologies in existing manufacturing plants is cheaper and quicker than building new facilities to handle a flu pandemic within the next five years, new research suggests.
22-Sep-2006 - Bentley Pharmaceuticals has announced it will use the North Carolina facilities of US-based services provider Cardinal Health for the scale-up and manufacture of the clinical supplies of its new intranasal insulin product.
21-Sep-2006 - A biotech consortium led by consultants BioPharm Services has been awarded a Collaborative Research & Development grant from the UK government, helping biopharmaceutical producers bring new products from development to manufacture.
21-Sep-2006 - Instrumentation supplier TTP LabTech has just launched a new business aimed at providing integrated custom automation systems to the pharmaceutical industry.
20-Sep-2006 - Thermo Electron said it has made significant updates to its laboratory information management system (LIMS), to address further critical needs in pharmaceutical manufacturing R&D and QA/QC.