09-Aug-2011 - FDA scrutiny of the Burlington, MA sterile plant AMRI bought in 2010 has made the takeover a “money pit”, an analyst said.
08-Aug-2011 - International Chemical Investors Group (ICIG) will take over Roche’s Colorado API plant in a bid to gain footing in the peptide manufacturing industry.
04-Aug-2011 - Stellar Biotechnologies is supplying SAFC with an intermediate derived from limpets to support production of cancer vaccines.
02-Aug-2011 - OctoPlus is targeting specialty generics manufacturers it believes can benefit from its controlled release drug delivery technologies.
01-Aug-2011 - West has applied a pricing surcharge to offset rising raw material costs that dragged on margins in the second quarter.
01-Aug-2011 - Robert Bosch Packaging Technology has sold a filling line to US firm Pharmalucence Partners, which is expanding its contract pharmaceutical manufacturing business.
27-Jul-2011 - CMO Angel Biotechnologies has called in UK-based engineering group WH Partnership to help re-commissioning its GMP standard biomanufacturing facility in Cramlington near Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
27-Jul-2011 - Market analysts PMR have launched a new paper highlighting the potential for API production in Russia, Ukraine and the Baltics.
26-Jul-2011 - Blue Chip Patient Recruitment says the future of patient sourcing for clinical trials lies in social media.
20-Jul-2011 - Sherpa has cut the ribbon on a new cGMP biotech clinical trial material packaging facility in San Diego.
19-Jul-2011 - Granules and Ajinomoto OmniChem have teamed up to produce high value APIs and intermediates at a new Indian plant.
18-Jul-2011 - Europe has proposed draft distribution guidance in response to globalisation and threats to the pharmaceutical supply chain.
13-Jul-2011 - Congress must grant the FDA additional powers to bring oversight of manufacturing inline with shifts in production practices, according to a report.
12-Jul-2011 - Phillips Plastics is to expand into Europe and add primary packaging contract manufacturing capabilities by acquiring Medisize.
12-Jul-2011 - Later today (July 12), at 4pm CEST to be precise, our sister website Outsourcing-pharma.com will launchOncologyTrialsOutsourcing – an industry first virtual conference – covering all aspects of third-party cancer drug development.
11-Jul-2011 - Production plants exceeding emission levels could have manufacturing authorisations revoked under EU GMP proposals made by Sweden.
05-Jul-2011 - ReNeuron has inked a new deal with Angel Biotechnology to outsource stem cell GMP production services to the CMO.
04-Jul-2011 - Catalent and OSO BioPharmaceuticals Manufacturing have both announced expansions to their controlled substances businesses in the last week.
29-Jun-2011 - US drug giant Pfizer has exercised its option to re-acquire a manufacturing facility in Rouses Point, New York from Akrimax.
13-Jun-2011 - Symetic has opened a new lab facility to showcase its range of processing systems to the pharmaceutical manufacturing, packaging and nutraceutical sectors.
09-Jun-2011 - Pfizer has begun what it claims is the world’s first ‘virtual’ trial and says that such innovation is needed to make sure clinical research is sustainable.
08-Jun-2011 - Switzerland-based life sciences supplier Lonza says it will invest CHF10m (€8m) to expand a Singapore plant that is part of its custom biomanufacturing business.
08-Jun-2011 - US supplier SAFC has teamed up with Pfenex in a partnership focused on the production of therapeutic proteins and vaccine components.
08-Jun-2011 - Switzerland-based life sciences supplier Lonza says it will invest CHF10m (€8m) to expand a Singapore plant that is part of its custom biomanufacturing business.
30-May-2011 - German transdermal drug developer, Labtec, has opened what it claims is Europe’s most modern manufacturing facility for the production of transdermal drug delivery systems (TDS) and oral dispersible films (ODF) using its proprietary RapidFilm technology.