23-Dec-2008 - Germany’s Schott Glass posted a 4 per cent increase in revenues during fiscal 2008, bringing in €2.23bn across its divisions.
18-Dec-2008 - To accompany the map detailing job losses, which can be viewed here , we have picked out the details and trends from the data, uncovering the state of US pharmaceutical employment in 2008.
17-Dec-2008 - McKesson RxPak has entered into a partnership with Burgopak, to provide the latter’s compliance packaging to companies in the US.
16-Dec-2008 - Helsinn’s facility in Dublin, Ireland has been cleared to package, test and store clinical trial supplies by the country’s medicines board, expanding on the US FDA approval it gained earlier this year.
15-Dec-2008 - Schott plans to add two giant glass melting tanks at its facility in Mainz, Germany, continuing the expansion of pharmaceutical tubing production capacity and creating 135 new jobs in the process.
15-Dec-2008 - Alcan Packaging’s decision to close its packaging production facility in Nebraska, US, at a cost of 71 jobs, follows just weeks after parent company, Australian mining giant Rio Tinto, announced some 14,000 lay offs.
11-Dec-2008 - The European Union’s long-awaited reform of pharmaceutical regulations known as the ‘pharmaceutical package’ was unveiled yesterday after months of consultation and debate.
10-Dec-2008 - Efforts to sure-up pharma track and trace rules and combat counterfeiting are a significant opportunity for specialist labelling firms, but the pace of change is proving to be a frustration, according to Domino Printing Sciences MD, Nigel Bond.
02-Dec-2008 - Domino Printing Sciences chose this year’s Emballage world packaging exhibition in Paris, France to showcase the new 5” printhead it has developed for its V300+ thermal transfer printer.
01-Dec-2008 - UPM Raflatac hopes its new RFID facility in Guangzhou, China will strengthen its market position as the country’s drugmakers seek to improve their international reputation and increase exports.
26-Nov-2008 - Sepha has launched PakScan, its new leak testing machine that the company claims can quickly and non-destructively test for holes in sachets and sealed pouches.
10-Nov-2008 - Honeywell has entered into a three-year agreement to supply its Aclar brand moisture-barrier films to Shanghai Haishun Packaging Material.
06-Nov-2008 - A deal to jointly market electronic patient monitoring service packaging has been signed by Stora Enso and Medixine.
05-Nov-2008 - Delays to US ePedigree and serialization laws, which will now not be implemented until 2015, could provide an unexpected windfall for US software firm Systech International and its PES platform.
20-Oct-2008 - A UK company has been launched with the aim of providing high level management expertise to pharmaceutical companies on an “on-demand” basis.
19-Oct-2008 - The FAMAC Division of Pöppelmann has launched a new range of plastic tubes for applications in the pharmaceuticals and food industries.
16-Oct-2008 - Gerresheimer’s decision to concentrate on the pharmaceutical and life science sectors and sell-off non-core divisions appears to be paying dividends judging by a 14 per cent jump in third quarter operating profit.
13-Oct-2008 - The implementation of California’s ePedigree system has been knocked back yet again, with 1 January 2015 now the proposed date.
07-Oct-2008 - Ahead of the “open house” at its facility in Monteriggioni, Siena, Italian machining specialist Marchesini spoke with in-PharmaTechnologist.com about the new plant and its role in the firm's offering to the drug industry.
07-Oct-2008 - Alcan says that its new Indian facility further strengthens its position “in pharmaceutical flexibles through growth in emerging markets,” which contributed about 20 per cent of its revenue last year.
02-Oct-2008 - Pfizer is shifting its research focus to those diseases where its sees the potential for the biggest treatment improvements and profits, while dropping eight disease areas including cholesterol.
30-Sep-2008 - DSM has invested in The Compliers Group (TCG), a company developing pharmaceutical packaging containing microchips to monitor a patient's compliance.
25-Sep-2008 - Chinese packaging specialist Dragon International is seeking SFDA marketing approval for a new composite film product for the suppository drug market.
16-Sep-2008 - Bilcare GCS, the clinical supplies arm of Indian packaging giant Bilcare, has considerably expanded its Phase III trial offering in an effort to provide drugmakers with a complete package.
15-Sep-2008 - Speculation is rife that Australia’s Amcor is one of several companies to have tabled bids for Rio Tinto’s $4.4bn (€3.1bn) Alcan Packaging division that serves the pharmaceutical, food and tobacco industries.