26-Jan-2010 - LTS Lohmann Therapie-Systeme (LTS) signs up as manufacturer of drugs that use IntelGenx’s VersaFilm delivery technology.
25-Jan-2010 - Adding development capacity at French solid dose manufacturing plant will provide a “competitive advantage” says CMO Patheon.
25-Jan-2010 - Work on “freezer farm” phase of Progenitor Cell Therapy’s (PCTs) new manufacturing facility in Allendale, New Jersey is complete.
25-Jan-2010 - Indian CRO Ankur Drugs and Pharma is a step closer to stating production of Romaco’s Siebler StripTabs now the German firm developed a fully integrated manufacturing line.
25-Jan-2010 - SurModics has opened a 90,000 sq ft cGMP manufacturing and development facility in Birmingham, Alabama, US to support its partnerships and shorten time to market.
21-Jan-2010 - AMRI’s plant in Rensselaer, New York gained SafeBridge potent compound certification this week after an effort that spokesperson Andrea Schulz said istestament to the firm's "willingness to go the extra mile”.
20-Jan-2010 - Blow-moulded packaging companies Pretium Packaging and Novapak Corporation have been taken over by New-York-based buyout firm Castle Harlan Inc in a deal worth $200m.
18-Jan-2010 - New Jersey, US-based contractors Catalent Pharma Solutions and Compass Pharma Services expanded their respective blister pack offerings last week, both citing growing drug industry demand.
14-Jan-2010 - Lonza will shut down its API plant in Riverside, Pennsylvania, US by the end of the year as part of a plan to cut costs and shift small-molecule production to Asia.
14-Jan-2010 - SyberWorks is collaborating with the Validation and Compliance Institute (VCI) to provide FDA compliance training, including a programme covering cGMP production.
13-Jan-2010 - Novavax has completed cGMP scale up of its RSV-F vaccine candidate, with the material being used in preclinical studies, and amended the terms of the H1N1 collaboration with Xcellerex.
12-Jan-2010 - German healthcare packaging group Gerresheimer says operations at its new Brazilian plant will begin in the near future.
11-Jan-2010 - US FDA has missed its review deadline for MannKind’s inhaled insulin candidate Afrezza after failing to complete inspection of third-party contract supplier.
11-Jan-2010 - A recently completed manufacturing and filling capacity expansion will help Florida Biologix meet deadlines and win repeat business according to company director Richard Snyder.
11-Jan-2010 - Production has begun at the US API plant German chemicals firm Evonik Industries recently bought from drugmaker Eli Lilly.
06-Jan-2010 - US preclinical CRO MPI Research has formed an alliance with Oregon-based needle-free delivery specialist Bioject Medical Technologies.
05-Jan-2010 - The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has given partial approval for Amcor’s takeover of Alcan after announcing it would now limit its review to Alcan’s Medical Flexible operations.
04-Jan-2010 - Rexam will close its pill and tablet bottle making facility in New Hampshire, US by the end of the year to further align global plastics operations according to new CEO Graham Chipchase
22-Dec-2009 - Patheon says a slowdown in “outsourcing decision making,” manufacturing problems in Puerto Rico and cost related to JLL’s takeover bid hurt it in fiscal 09.
21-Dec-2009 - US drug major Merck & Co will buy into the UK's contract biologics manufacturing sector with the acquisition of Tees Valley-based Avecia Biologics.
21-Dec-2009 - Jubilant Organosys will build a new niacinamide and 3-Cyanopyridine plant to cater for growing demand in the drug and nutrition industries.
21-Dec-2009 - The Indian pharmaceutical market was worth $10.8bn (€7.5bn) this year and will more than double in value by 2014 according to a new industry report by Cygnus Business Consulting & Research.
17-Dec-2009 - Swedish CDMO Recipharm will buy privately-owned group Cobra Biomanufacturing to build its presence in the expanding biologics sector.
16-Dec-2009 - Lonza will use its GS (glutamine synthetase) Gene Expression system to produce clinical trial stocks of Femta Pharmaceuticals’ candidate rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treatment, FM101.
14-Dec-2009 - Canadian CMO Patheon will consolidate its Puerto Rican activities at its facility in Manati and sell or close its plant in neighbouring Caguas by 2011.