02-Feb-2007 - Pfizer's latest cutbacks will provide a new outsourcing opportunity for contract manufacturing organisations (CMOs) in low-cost destinations as the drug giant announces plans to double its amount of drug production outsourcing.
01-Feb-2007 - Canada's Dalton Pharma Services has been given the green light to start offering commercial sterile manufacturing services to its pharma customers.
31-Jan-2007 - Hospira, Laureate Pharma, QSV Biologics and Cook Pharmacia all bagged new contract manufacturing deals this week.
30-Jan-2007 - Johnson Matthey has announced a reassuring business update ahead of its 31 March year-end, suggesting that Adderall is the driving force behind a recovery in its pharmaceutical materials business.
30-Jan-2007 - Viral vector manufacturer Lentigen has entered into a collaboration with Wave Biotech to gain access to disposable process and equipment expertise, which ties in with a shift in the bioprocess manufacturing sector towards using disposable systems.
30-Jan-2007 - US-based firm Xcellerex yesterday announced it has completed the second half of a $20m (€15.4m) financing deal, raising $11m to speed up commercialisation of its innovative disposable manufacturing technology for vaccines and biotherapeutics.
30-Jan-2007 - UK biotech company Verona Pharma has contracted fellow UK firm Onyx to manufacture supplies of its new hay fever drug candidate for forthcoming preclinical and clinical studies.
25-Jan-2007 - Swiss chemicals firm and contract manufacturer Lonza has announced 18 per cent rise in net profit in 2006 rising to CHF 222m (€137.4), fuelled by its strategic move into biopharmaceuticals.
25-Jan-2007 - Germany's Vetter Pharma-Fertigung has announced it has obtained a manufacturing license for its new facility which will expand its services by adding vial filling for lyophilised (freeze-dried) products to its portfolio, in addition to dual-chamber syringes and cartridges filling.
24-Jan-2007 - Canadian contract manufacturer QSV Biologics has signed two manufacturing deals in as many weeks, strengthening its position in the Phase II and III clinical supplies arena.
23-Jan-2007 - German fine chemicals company Saltigo is benefiting from a cash injection from its parent company, Lanxess. The German firm is earmarking €30m for plant modernisation at its subsidiary, and a €10m brand new multi-purpose facility is already under construction.
22-Jan-2007 - Agilent Technologies has signed an agreement with Groton Biosystems to co-market measuring solutions for the pharmaceutical industry, as the Process Analytical Technology (PAT) initiative gains popularity among drug manufacturers constantly looking for ways to improve processing efficiencies and costs.
17-Jan-2007 - Tocris, a leading supplier of chemicals, peptides and antibodies to the major pharmaceutical companies, universities and research institutes has completed a $40m (€30.8m) management buy out (MBO) from its founders.
16-Jan-2007 - The booming pharmaceutical contract research market sees a new player enter the arena as analytical lab Eno River Labs separates into two independent divisions to create a new business that will provide analytical and formulation services to the pharmaceutical industry.
10-Jan-2007 - 2007 will be a tough year for pharmaceutical employers as the industry struggles to find enough staff with specialised technical skills and industry experience, says new research.
10-Jan-2007 - Helix BioPharma and BioVectra have signed a deal for the manufacture of Helix's new lung cancer drug for clinical trials - a move that strengthens the already existing relationship between the two Canadian firms.
09-Jan-2007 - India's drug manufacturing industry is tipped to grow 10 per cent over the next three years as more pharma firms shift operations there to cut costs, says a research report.
08-Jan-2007 - Melbourn Scientific has invested in a light obscuration particle counter to size and count particles in liquid samples using light microscopy, to expand the company's capacity in stability testing and to increase throughput and efficiency.
04-Jan-2007 - Galapagos will continue to feed Amgen's drug discovery programmes having expanded the long-standing partnership between the two companies.
04-Jan-2007 - Solid oral dose product specialist Almac Pharma has announced it has expanded its formulation facilities located at its UK headquarters to provide a wider range of services to pharma and biotech companies.
03-Jan-2007 - India's Dishman Pharmaceuticals & Chemicals is planning to snap up biotech and nanotech contract research organisation (CRO) companies in Europe and in the US within drug conjugates to expand their biologics capability.
02-Jan-2007 - Pfizer has entered a capacity expansion phase, to meet requirements of global manufacturing of Genotropin (somatropin), a top-selling human growth hormone.
20-Dec-2006 - NNE and Fresenius ProServe yesterday announced they had reached an agreement by which NNE will acquire Fresenius' subsidiary, engineering company Pharmaplan GmbH.
20-Dec-2006 - Crucell yesterday announced it had received the first orders from US-headquartered Wyeth Biotech. The order represents the first move following the finalisation of the contract manufacturing agreement between the two companies at the end of 2005.
20-Dec-2006 - GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has broken an industry record by licensing a drug for leukaemia from Genmab for $2.1bn (€1.6bn).