23-Aug-2006 - Despite its consolidation, the competitive consumable sector still offers potential for rapid growth and better profits in the biopharmaceutical industry, while contract bioprocessing services will be increasingly in demand, according to a new market report by D&MD Publications titled "The Bioprocessing Industry - Increasing Capacity, Production, and Efficiency."
10-Aug-2006 - Drug manufacturers are increasingly turning to specialised providers of analytical services for the solid state characterisation of their formulations, seeking answers to processing issues, drug delivery challenges and even protecting drug patents.
07-Aug-2006 - Failure to get it right in designing and implementing a manufacturing process results in the loss of time and money, but the risk of this can be minimised if some basic organisational steps are followed, argues Brookwood's director of manufacturing.
20-Jul-2006 - As it consolidates its manufacturing operations in the US, Watson Pharmaceuticals has received a warning letter from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accusing it of using the wrong ingredients in the production of capsules, failing to prevent contamination and botching testing procedures.
18-Jul-2006 - Looking to expand its laboratory testing and consulting services, PharmEng has acquired Rootlink Tecknic, a laboratory instrumentation automated solution sales and service company based in Toronto.
17-Jul-2006 - Torey Pines Scientific has announced the launch if its new stirring hot plate, which has been designed for use in the chemical, pharmaceutical, biochemical, and laboratories where reproducible, accurate, hands-off sample preparation is carried out.
12-Jul-2006 - Thermo Electron introduces its solution for researchers involved in large volume pipetting, making available a pipetting aid that incorporates a motor to allow faster pipetting of volumes saving time and cost without compromising accuracy and safety.
10-Jul-2006 - Technology firm Symyx has acquired Autodose, a maker of precision powder-dispensing equipment, as it seeks to develop the next generation of high-throughput benchtop automation systems.
04-Jul-2006 - A new generation of drugs that target specific areas of the body has created new challenges for dissolution testing, as many recent active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) are poorly soluble in traditional media and need novel testing procedures.
04-Jul-2006 - Sanofi pasteur's vaccine manufacturing plant in Pennsylvania, where half of America's influenza vaccines are made, has been served with a warning letter by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), asking for measures to ensure batches of its flu shot ingredients do not become contaminated again.
29-Jun-2006 - French purification specialist Novasep has unveiled a new series of preparative high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) columns that are ideally suited for the purification of any amount of product.
27-Jun-2006 - Nalgene introduces its sterile disposable shaker flask that incorporates a larger volume capacity for single-use. Its design aims to reduce the risk of cross contamination.
16-Jun-2006 - Nanogen introduces its latest enterovirus reagent, which employs hybridisation technology designed to detect enteroviruses-associated sequences. Enterovirus infections cause a wide spectrum of diseases and are the most common cause of aseptic meningitis.
13-Jun-2006 - Liquid handling specialists Anachem has made available a recycling programme for the waste polypropylene racks produced by its new range of high quality robotic tips designed to fit Tecan, Qiagen, Beckman or Gilson Robotic Platforms.
12-Jun-2006 - Velocity11 has made available globally, a gripper accessory for its Bravo Liquid Handling Platform that enables a broader range of fully automated applications to be achieved by the compact Bravo platform.
07-Jun-2006 - Drug delivery firm MonoSol Rx has inaugurated new analytical laboratories in its manufacturing facility in Indiana which will allow it to integrate all aspects of product development and manufacturing of drug delivery films.
05-Jun-2006 - As demand for protein-based drugs increases, Pall has introduced a new type of mixed-mode chromatography sorbents that make protein purification faster and cheaper.
30-May-2006 - UK-based Malvern Instruments has been busy streamlining its particle characterisation contract testing services at its global locations, with the latest reshuffle taking place in France.
30-May-2006 - MFIC Corporation, whose Microfluidics Division manufactures industrial submicron processing equipment, has returned to profitability in the first quarter of 2006 after big losses in first quarter of last year, buoyed by increased demand from drugmakers who are scaling up their production for clinical trials and commercialisation.
17-May-2006 - Analytical instrument maker Thermo has announced it will promote compatibility between its RESULT software and CAMO's Unscrambler software, bringing together the most powerful near infrared (NIR) analysers in the industry.
12-May-2006 - A new range of liquid pumps, which feature completely inert pumping heads, are causing waves within the chemical manufacturing industry, with the ability to mimic full scale production plant conditions in a laboratory environment.
02-May-2006 - Bruker BioSpin has launched the world's highest field actively shielded NMR magnet at 950 MHz, which allows higher sensitivity and unrivalled spectral dispersion whilst maintaining same size cryostat and identical cryogenic performance as the 900 US2.
26-Apr-2006 - Thermo has unveiled a new blend measurement solution for the real-time analysis of pharmaceutical blending processes in solid dosage form manufacturing which can be easily moved from blender to blender and used on any size pharmaceutical blender bin, from laboratory scale to production scale.
19-Apr-2006 - Invitrogen and Signalomics have agreed terms to develop nanotechnology-based laboratory approaches to cancer diagnostics in a move that is set to make the identification of tumours easier and quicker.
20-Mar-2006 - Analytical technology specialists Waters Corporation and Bruker BioSciences have entered into a collaboration agreement to provide greater integration and connectivity between their products, looking to increase efficiency in pharmaceutical manufacturing.