28-Oct-2009 - US headquartered Unilife is targeting pharmaceutical companies with its new Unifill RTF safety syringe and product range and has begun seeking international trademarks.
20-Oct-2009 - CNS focused drugmaker H Lundbeck says its acquisition of French CMO Elaiapharm represents a cheaper option than third-party manufacturing.
19-Oct-2009 - The US arm of packaging giant Schott has added ready-to-fill (RTF) glass syringe manufacturing capacity at its facility in Lebanon, Pennsylvania in a $14m (€9.4m) expansion designed to meet growing demand.
15-Oct-2009 - As CPhI 2009 draws to a close we take a look back on the show, which, despite some negatives, appears to have been an overall success.
15-Oct-2009 - Packaging group Stralfors says its recent collaboration with Novo Nordisk proves that its service plan is ideal for projects with strict time-to-market requirements.
08-Oct-2009 - We look ahead to CPhI 2009 which takes place in Madrid, Spain next week and will showcase the world’s leading ingredients, contract services, machinery and biotech companies.
06-Oct-2009 - Insulated packaging specialist Coldpack says its new Pharmaceutical Pouch product can help ensure drugs are kept at the correct temperature during transportation.
05-Oct-2009 - Rexam has merged its Pharma, Primary Packaging and Prescription units into a new Healthcare division to keep pace with the increasingly globalized drug manufacturing industry's regulatory demands.
01-Oct-2009 - German chemicals giant BASF wants to double the revenue it generates in the Asia-Pacific, with pharmaceuticals being one of the key markets in which it wants to expand.
29-Sep-2009 - Northern Irish Packaging specialist Sepha says increasing pressure to reduce waste is driving drug industry demand for its range of Press-Out deblistering technologies.
28-Sep-2009 - West has opened its first manufacturing facility in China to meet rising demand but the process has taken since 2006 and been “very tedious”, its president of West Asia Pacific told Outsourcing-Pharma.
21-Sep-2009 - The North American launch of a new range of mLLDPE resins will result in greater lightweighting, cost savings and sustainability for flexible packaging in the region, said manufacturers LyondellBasell.
17-Sep-2009 - US packaging group MeadWestVaco (MWV) has launched its Med-Easy pharmaceutical packaging solution in Europe in an effort to appeal to patients who need to take their treatments on the move.
16-Sep-2009 - LyondellBasell is to close a low density polyethylene (LDPE) plant in the UK by the end of the year on continued weak demand and as it seeks to phase out uneconomic facilities from its global operations.
15-Sep-2009 - Researchers have combined crime research and space-age technology to create an anti-counterfeiting system that they claim is cheap, quick and non destructible.
09-Sep-2009 - The new, fully automatic top load case packer from end-of-line packaging specialist Brenton significantly improves packing speeds compared with manual operations while boosting flexibility, claims the company.
27-Aug-2009 - Researchers have presented a low cost track and trace and authentication system, which they believe could be implemented immediately, to combat counterfeiting in the developing world.
19-Aug-2009 - Czech CMO Medis International has completed construction of its new pharma packaging plant in Bolatice, just nine months after work on the 2,700 sqm site began.
17-Aug-2009 - Amcor has temporarily halted trading on the Australian stock exchange, fuelling rumours that the group is finally about to move for Rio Tinto’s Alcan pharmaceutical packaging unit.
13-Aug-2009 - Rollprint Packaging Products claims that its prototype laboratory can help cut time to market by providing information about how packaging will behave in the commercial environment.
05-Aug-2009 - West Pharmaceutical Services’ operating income fell by 33 per cent in Q2 but the company reported that demand for some of its drug delivery technology is strong.
04-Aug-2009 - AmerisourceBergen’s contract packaging business believes the outlook for the sector is improving after it posted an 11 per cent rise in operating income in Q3.
30-Jul-2009 - Good adherence pack sales and profits growth helped US packaging group MeadWestvaco to a positive set of Q2 financials, despite a 16 per cent drop in sales for the period.
28-Jul-2009 - Packaging firm Rexam is considering issuing new equity to service its burdensome debt pile, after market conditions failed to improve in the last quarter.
27-Jul-2009 - US firm Compass Pharma Services is now offering ISO class 8 certified packaging services in a bid to capture a share of the expanding high-potency drug sector.