10-Mar-2008 - Portugal's Hovione has become the latest in a spate of pharma industry players to invest further in China.
06-Mar-2008 - Pfizer has outlined a number of strategies for growing its fledgling pipeline and lowering its cost base and is planning to increase globalisation and accelerate growth in emerging markets as part of this.
05-Mar-2008 - There were distinct signs of faltering progress in the pharmaceutical business of US-based performance materials supplier Ferro Corporation during the fourth quarter and year ended 31 December 2007.
03-Mar-2008 - With active pharmaceutical ingredient sales of $1,460m (€960.8m) in 2007 and a portfolio of more than 250 compounds, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries is by a long stretch the dominant supplier in the global API market.
03-Mar-2008 - A UK chemicals plant has become the latest casualty of GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK's) pledge to make the business leaner with the help of outsourcing and offshoring.
28-Feb-2008 - AMRI edged back into the red during the fourth quarter of 2007 after stagnant sales growth and higher costs, a scenario that is expected to continue.
26-Feb-2008 - Jubilant Organosys, India's largest custom research and manufacturing services (CRAMS) provider, has scored new contracts to the tune of $92m for the year thus far as its business continues to gather momentum.
25-Feb-2008 - Dextra Laboratories, Akorn, Metrics and Xcelience have all recently announced new contract manufacturing news.
20-Feb-2008 - Cambrex' cost cutting resolve is starting to pay off for the firm, who achieved an improved profitability in the fourth quarter of 2007, although sales are still stagnant.
13-Feb-2008 - DSM, Althea, Laureate Pharma, Albemarle and Patheon have all recently announced new contract manufacturing news.
11-Feb-2008 - New York-based AMRI has added to its Indian operations, following the acquisition of another manufacturing plant in the country.
07-Feb-2008 - Cook Pharmica has announced an $80m expansion to its biopharmaceutical facility in Bloomington, Indiana.
07-Feb-2008 - Germany put in a strong showing as category winners were announced for the fourth annual Facility of the Year Awards (FOYA) recognising innovation in pharmaceutical manufacturing projects.
06-Feb-2008 - With increasing pressures on pharma pipelines leading to greater interest in compound licensing, firms can be caught out by failing to give scalability issues due attention, according to Joseph D'Antuono speaking at last week's Informex trade show in New Orleans.
05-Feb-2008 - Chinese outsourcing firm Radiant Pharma & Tech is blasting through the stereotypes being pinned on companies operating in low-cost economies, with the relatively young firm hoping to give companies in established markets a run for their money.
04-Feb-2008 - A delegation from the Scotland's chemicals industry descended on the recent Informex trade show in New Orleans, determined to convince the assembled industry representatives that the country should be at the top of the list for firms seeking out a competitive location for their business.
04-Feb-2008 - Members of the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association (SOCMA) have slammed competitors from emerging markets, claiming poor quality goods and lack of technological competence in regions such as China, India and Eastern Europe.
29-Jan-2008 - Unexpected contract downturns have resulted in Catalent Pharma Solutions having to lay off 100 workers at its soft gelatin capsules facility in St Petersburg, Florida.
24-Jan-2008 - Lonza has revealed a profit hike for the full year of 2007, reflecting the fruit of its "revised growth strategies" across its business units, said the firm, which also announced its "innovations" for future growth and the signing of a new Sanofi Pasteur deal.
22-Jan-2008 - Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) has revealed plans to close another site in Puerto Rico in its latest cost-cutting move.
21-Jan-2008 - California-based Medegen has opened a new facility in Mexico to meet the 'heightened demand' for outsourced contract manufacturing.
16-Jan-2008 - Wyeth's manufacturing facility in Rouses Point, New York, has been spared the scrap heap, with yesterday's announcement that new pharma player Akrimax has bought up the beleaguered site.
15-Jan-2008 - SAFC is still on its expansion drive, with yet another multi-million dollar investment announced this week, this time at the company's niche biologics plant in Carlsbad, California.
15-Jan-2008 - AMRI, Pharmaceutics International, Celitrion and Gland Pharma have all recently generated new contract manufacturing news.
14-Jan-2008 - Chemical and intermediates firm Lanxess has announced that its subsidiary Saltigo is the proud new owner of a site in Washington in the US, formerly used by Eli Lilly subsidiary, ICOS.