Catalent unveils ulta-sensitive melamine test for drugs
05-Nov-2009 - US contract services firm Catalent has launched a new test service capable of detecting trace...
Novartis invests in China
03-Nov-2009 - Novartis is investing $250m (€170m) to construct a facility in China focused on research, development...
Lonza cuts 2009 guidance 14% and plans workforce cuts
02-Nov-2009 - Lonza cuts 2009 earning guidance and may reduce its workforce under “Project Bond” cost cutting...
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Phoenix helps closed Shasun plant rise from the “ashes”
02-Nov-2009 - Phoenix Chemicals will re-open a chemicals manufacturing plant in Scotland less than a year after...
CDC targets track and trace
28-Oct-2009 - CDC Software has launched Trace Express Viewer which helps identify suspect materials, provides cGxP compliant...
Hovione adds aseptic spray drying to offering
26-Oct-2009 - Portuguese CMO Hovione has bought an aseptic spray-drying line from US firm Acusphere and says...
Soluplus launched as market for HME excipients heats up
22-Oct-2009 - BASF says its new Soluplus excipient will help meet demand for solubilising agents that are...
FDA buys fake Tamiflu to warn consumers
21-Oct-2009 - The FDA has warned consumers about the spread of counterfeit H1N1 treatments after the agency...
APC’s new R&D unit to focus on complex peptides
21-Oct-2009 - The American Peptide Company (APC) plans to set up an R&D unit at its facility...
Lonza withdraws Patheon bid, but still keen on CMOs
20-Oct-2009 - Swiss healthcare services giant Lonza has withdrawn its offer for Canadian CMO Patheon, citing value...
H Lundbeck eschews outsourcing and buys Elaiapharm
20-Oct-2009 - CNS focused drugmaker H Lundbeck says its acquisition of French CMO Elaiapharm represents a cheaper...
EC GMP directive “still alive”; Cargill
19-Oct-2009 - The EC’s plan to make excipients comply with GMP is “still alive”, according to Cargill...
Arch adds first plant scale SMB in India
19-Oct-2009 - Arch Pharmalabs is continuing its push to serve innovative pharma by adding simulated moving bed...
CPhI 2009 - Road to recovery?
15-Oct-2009 - As CPhI 2009 draws to a close we take a look back on the show,...
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Lilly sells Tippecanoe API site to Evonik
15-Oct-2009 - US drugmaker Eli Lilly will sell its Tippecanoe laboratories API manufacturing unit to Germany’s Evonik...
galenIQ 981 cuts coating time and extends shelf-life, says Beneo Palatinit
14-Oct-2009 - Beneo-Palatinit’s new galenIQ 981 excipient offers drugmakers a way of improving industrial processing, stability and...
Dow launches flake PEG at CPhI
14-Oct-2009 - Dow Polyglycols and Surfactants is using CPhI 2009 in Madrid to launch Carbowax Sentry PEG...
USP targets counterfeits in Cambodia
12-Oct-2009 - The USAID and USP have launched a campaign to tackle counterfeits in Cambodia and Greater...
CPhI 2009 show preview
08-Oct-2009 - We look ahead to CPhI 2009 which takes place in Madrid, Spain next week and...
Labopharm upbeat about depression drug after FDA OKs API maker
08-Oct-2009 - Canadian drugmaker Labopharm says its Italian API maker Gruppo Angelini has resolved all the US...
Less potent heparin begins shipping on Thursday, says FDA
05-Oct-2009 - From Thursday onwards all formulations of the blood thinner heparin shipped in the US will...
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India’s formulation market worth $14bn by 2013, says Angel Broking
05-Oct-2009 - India’s drug formulation market will grow 12 per cent a year and be worth $13.7bn...
Ash Stevens starts $6m expansion
01-Oct-2009 - Buoyed by an increase in repeat business and deals with large pharma companies Ash Stevens...
BASF unveils Asia growth plan
01-Oct-2009 - German chemicals giant BASF wants to double the revenue it generates in the Asia-Pacific, with...
Hovione's Loures plant gets latest FDA pre-approval nod
30-Sep-2009 - Portuguese API maker Hovione says its contract manufacturing plant in Loures has passed a pre-approval...
