18-Feb-2008 - Fourth quarter operating profit at Italian packaging automation firm IMA SpA fell some 8.5 per cent to €27m, while its revenue for the period declined 4.2 per cent to €147m, although pharma sales, buoyed by acquisitions, kept its full-year figures in positive territory.
14-Feb-2008 - Copapharm Europe, the pan-European alliance of pharmaceutical packagers, has significantly raised its game in the Spanish market with a new member, Artes Graficas Nekar.
11-Feb-2008 - A proposed rule on labelling changes published by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has re-ignited the reliably inflammable debate over the role of pre-emption in US product liability cases.
07-Feb-2008 - Germany put in a strong showing as category winners were announced for the fourth annual Facility of the Year Awards (FOYA) recognising innovation in pharmaceutical manufacturing projects.
06-Feb-2008 - German pharmaceutical packaging group Gerresheimer has once again extended its reach in the plastic packaging space, this time acquiring Allplas Embalagens, the market leader for pharmaceutical plastic packaging in Brazil.
30-Jan-2008 - A new, non-invasive device for monitoring oxygen content in packaging and other enclosed containers has been launched by US optical sensing specialist Ocean Optics.
29-Jan-2008 - Unexpected contract downturns have resulted in Catalent Pharma Solutions having to lay off 100 workers at its soft gelatin capsules facility in St Petersburg, Florida.
22-Jan-2008 - Bosch Packaging has opened a new manufacturing facility in Goa, India, to cater to its growing customer base in the booming emerging market and increase sourcing for its European headquarters.
08-Jan-2008 - Drug delivery specialist Antares Pharma has landed its fourth deal with Israeli generics behemoth Teva, this time to develop a novel pen injector for two Teva products.
03-Jan-2008 - Several pharmaceutical packaging players completed deals in time for the holidays, with Schott, Gerresheimer and Alcoa all announcing developments in the closing days of 2007.
19-Dec-2007 - Eli Lilly, Shire, Pregis, and Eisai have all had people on the move in the world of pharmaceutical manufacturing.
10-Dec-2007 - Vetter, New England Peptide, Urigen Pharmaceuticals, Servac, and Patheon have all recently announced contract manufacturing news.
07-Dec-2007 - In-PharmaTechnologist.com brings you a selection of recent headlines from around the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry.
03-Dec-2007 - Spanish firm Almirall is working on a new chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) treatment combined with a hi-tech easy use inhaler, creating what it hopes will be another competitive product from its in-house pipeline.
23-Nov-2007 - Pharmaceutical packaging specialist Schott has announced plans to head to Russia and establish its first pharma production site in the country.
22-Nov-2007 - Boehringer Ingelheim has added to its contract services with the manufacture, fill and finish capacity for drugs in prefilled syringes.
14-Nov-2007 - Pfizer yesterday announced a multi-million dollar pay-off to ex-partner Nektar Therapeutics, but the details of the deal reveal not only Nektar's concerns for its future, but also that Pfizer is still keeping its fingers in the Exubera pie.
13-Nov-2007 - IBM has teamed up with RFID specialist Tagsys to offer pharmaceutical manufacturers a chance to have a practice run implementing their RFID track and trace technology ahead of new legal requirements coming into force in 2009.
12-Nov-2007 - AstraZeneca's axe has made its latest appearance in South Africa, with the sale of a packaging plant and the formation of an outsourcing deal with its new owners.
09-Nov-2007 - In-PharmaTechnologist.com brings you a selection of other headlines from the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry.
08-Nov-2007 - West Pharmaceutical Services, one of the two firms responsible for manufacturing Pfizer's failed Exubera device, recently turned in its third quarter financials, so far avoiding any major dent from the company's decision to drop the inhalable insulin product.
02-Nov-2007 - In-PharmaTechnologist.com brings you a selection of other headlines from the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry.
30-Oct-2007 - Action should be taken to curb the counterfeit drug trade, but not via legal intervention, the results of a European survey say.
17-Oct-2007 - A worldwide growth in the sales of pharmaceutical bottles, and in the pharma sector in general, has had a positive impact on packaging company Gerresheimer's financial results.
26-Sep-2007 - German packaging company Gerresheimer has received recognition for its packaging expertise again after winning the German Packaging Award the second year in a row.