31-Mar-2009 - Custom micronisation and milling firm SDTech has bolted on particle size analysis to its suite of drug industry offerings through a new collaboration with UK analysis specialist Malvern Instruments.
31-Mar-2009 - Pall’s Stax single-use depth filter attracted interest from a “number of biotechnology companies” at Interphex, according to director of marketing Ian Sellick who explained how the system can save space, time and money.
26-Mar-2009 - Flexibility is going to be a key driver for the pharmaceutical market in the next few years, according to Millipore's VP of downstream processing Paul Chapman.
24-Mar-2009 - St Patrick’s Day celebrations weren’t the only thing bringing people together in New York last week as the pharmaceutical manufacturing and outsourcing industries gathered at the Jacob K Javits convention centre for Interphex 2009.
24-Mar-2009 - Vetter Pharma-Fertigung (VPF), a specialist provider of pre-filled injection systems, has formed a new subsidiary, Vetter Pharma International (VPI) to take charge of sales, marketing and customer services.
23-Mar-2009 - Schering-Plough has agreed to pay $165m to settle a class action lawsuit that claims the company’s failure to disclose manufacturing deficiencies defrauded investors.
19-Mar-2009 - UK company Paraytec has introduced a new instrument designed to allow formulation scientists to visualise – in real time – what is happening at a tablet surface when it dissolves.
19-Mar-2009 - Sensorin has used Interphex 2009 to preview its self-calibrating pH measurement system, which it claims is the first of its kind and will help maximise yield in downstream purification processes.
17-Mar-2009 - The safety of drugs imported into the US remains high on the FDA’s agenda, with the agency publishing new draft guidance that raises standards for labs inspecting products made overseas.
17-Mar-2009 - The three main international pharmacopoeias in the US, Europe and Japan are experiencing a difference of opinion on the tricky topic of testing pharmaceutical ingredients for heavy metals.
16-Mar-2009 - US Biotechnology firm Cel-Sci has unveiled a new manufacturing process, cold 4°C Aseptic Filling, that it claims can improve the shelf-life and potency of biologic drugs produced using stem cells.
16-Mar-2009 - US CMO Formatech has brought a new Virtis Benchmark 3000 luophilizer into service at its manufacturing facility in Andover, Massachusetts, boosting capacity by 13,000 vials per production run.
16-Mar-2009 - Pall CEO Eric Krasnoff says delayed drug industry capital expenditure and moves to conserve inventory in the current global gloom caused life science sales to fall 8 per cent for the second quarter.
12-Mar-2009 - German coating technology specialist Driam hopes its new Driaconti-T continuous tablet coating platform will win over manufacturers wishing to improve process efficiency in times of economic gloom.
11-Mar-2009 - The FDA has found “significant objectionable conditions” at the Genzyme manufacturing facility that makes Lumizyme, creating another issue in the product’s approval process.
10-Mar-2009 - AMPAC Fine Chemicals has inaugurated its kilogram scale current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) compliant facility, which can handle batch or continuous processing.
05-Mar-2009 - Evolution is collaborating with C&QP to offer a more comprehensive range of GMP services to clients, covering plant and equipment qualification, calibration and maintenance.
03-Mar-2009 - ESS Technologies has extended the range of its Monoblock platform with a new bottle feeder capable of accurately filling and capping up to 120 small pharmaceutical liquid bottles a minute.
02-Mar-2009 - Symetix has launched a compact high-volume optical inspection system that is capable of verifying the colour, size and shape of capsules and tablets and removing defective products.
26-Feb-2009 - Ranbaxy’s problems with the US FDA were ratcheted up a notch yesterday when the agency halted its review of products made at the firm’s plant in Paonta Sahib, India after uncovering “untrue statements” in ANDA’s and NDA filings.
26-Feb-2009 - Novartis has recalled two batches of meningitis C vaccine from the UK after the solvent used in their preparation was discovered to be contaminated with Staphylococcus aureus.
25-Feb-2009 - Equipment specialist Modular Process Constructors has been snapped up by Belgian biological testing firm Mach One for $500,000 (€388,746)
24-Feb-2009 - Wonderware has launched software to improve the management of batch processes, offering users the ability to easily install additional processing lines or manufacturing cells.
19-Feb-2009 - Indian process technology firm ACE Technologies has won the contract to sell and service GEA Pharma Systems’ range of Courtoy tablet presses to local drug manufacturers as part of the latter company’s Asian expansion plan.
18-Feb-2009 - Japanese chemicals firm Asahi Kasei has ramped up its bioprocessing operations with the acquisition of US industrial processing specialist TechniKrom’s biopharmaceuticals business.