08-May-2007 - Reliance on contract packaging staff is increasing and it is currently a 'contractor's market.' However, the biggest challenge in a packaging laboratory - stability - will only be overcome as full-service packaging firms take over the scene, attendees heard during a recent presentation at Interphex, New York.
08-May-2007 - Kendle has climbed back into the black in the first quarter of 2007 after another quarter of strong sales although pre-tax profit remains down on 2006.
03-May-2007 - Technology and services provider Althea Technologies has stepped closer to a significant increase in manufacturing capacity as it announces the completion of the first phase of construction at its new San Diego facility.
02-May-2007 - West Pharmaceutical Services reported a 40 per cent increase in operating profit for the first quarter of 2007, despite profits diving 43 per cent in the Tech Group business that makes the delivery device for Pfizer's inhaled insulin Exubera.
30-Apr-2007 - Boehringer Ingelheim is stepping up its commercial contract manufacturing operation in Mexico to feed the ravenous North American market.
30-Apr-2007 - US contract manufacturer PharmaFab has agreed to stop the manufacturing and distribution of some of its drugs after regulators found they were produced illegally.
26-Apr-2007 - Roche gave an update on its manufacturing of influenza drug Tamiflu (oseltamivir) today, saying that while it had reached its target capacity of 400 million doses a year, demand is running much lower.
25-Apr-2007 - Indian contract research and manufacturing services (CRAMS) firm Jubilant Organosys has announced the purchase of US-based company Hollister-Stier Laboratories for $122.5m (€90m) in what represents one of the largest overseas acquisitions by an Indian company in the CRAMS sector.
24-Apr-2007 - Indian firm Biocon has recorded a healthy performance in the fiscal year 2007, as revenues in its research services unit soared.
23-Apr-2007 - Indian contract manufacturer Promed has finally opened its newly-built parenteral manufacturing plant in Himachal Pradeshon, India.
19-Apr-2007 - Swiss contract manufacturer Lonza has announced it will invest around $300m (€220m) in the expansion of its US biomanufacturing plant, just two weeks after kicking off the construction of a similar facility in Singapore.
18-Apr-2007 - French contract research organisation (CRO) Porsolt & Partners Pharmacology has signed a co-marketing deal with Singapore-based start-up Maccine to co-promote their respective preclinical service offerings to pharma and biotech companies.
18-Apr-2007 - Canadian contract manufacturer Patheon has announced its plans to restructure its Ontario network of drug manufacturing facilities in order to improve its profitability.
17-Apr-2007 - Integrated Project Services (IPS) has announced it has opened two offices in India in a bid to expand its services into this budding region.
16-Apr-2007 - Hyaluron, MultiCell Technologies and Affitech have all announced new contract manufacturing deals this week.
10-Apr-2007 - In this week's review of activity within the preclinical research services arena, new deals have emerged involving Argenta Discovery, SRI International and Discovery Partners International.
04-Apr-2007 - Japan is getting serious about clinical trial reform after years of lagging behind the rest of the developed world in the availability of drugs in the country, which ironically is the world's number two pharma market behind the US.
02-Apr-2007 - As Swiss firm Lonza announced last week that it has broken ground at its second manufacturing site in Singapore, the region looks set for growth in biologics manufacture with biological products due to take centre stage in the pharma industry over the coming years.
02-Apr-2007 - Covance is seeing the high potential of the booming market for biomarkers and has decided to devote an entire expert team to support clients with biomarker-related services.
29-Mar-2007 - Process development is the key when outsourcing clinical supply biomanufacturing to a contractor, according to an industry player.
26-Mar-2007 - Indian biotech firm Biocon is planning to boost its contract research business as global pharma companies are increasingly looking to outsource R&D to India, according to media reports.
15-Mar-2007 - A potential new law mandating the running of clinical trials before a "generic" biologic drug approval may seem like a potential goldmine for contract research organisations (CROs), however, this vision is premature.
14-Mar-2007 - MDS has reported a lower first-quarter profit for its Pharma Services unit as a result of a regulatory probe of its operations.
08-Mar-2007 - US services provider Frontier Biosciences has announced that it has bought a majority stake in a China-based preclinical contract research organisation (CRO).
06-Mar-2007 - Dalton Pharma Services, Granules India and Lonza have all announced new contract manufacturing deals this week.