Vaccine demand a friend to Pall in Q1; but sales still fall 5.4%
19-Nov-2009 - Continued high demand for vaccine manufacturing technologies saw life sciences emerge as one of the...
Reaxa gets UK grant for Ni EnCat scale-up
18-Nov-2009 - UK process technologies firm Reaxa has received a £146K (€164K) R&D grant from the Northwest...
UK aims to improve manufacturing efficiency
16-Nov-2009 - A consortium including GlaxoSmithKline and GEA has been formed to push continuous processing and improve...
Galenix and DSM sign manufacturing and marketing accord
12-Nov-2009 - French drug delivery specialist Galenix has named DSM’s pharmaceutical products unit as its manufacturing and...
PharmaForm rolls out contract spray-drying service
05-Nov-2009 - US CMO PharmaForm has added spray-drying to its contract offering to capture a share of...
Novartis invests in China
03-Nov-2009 - Novartis is investing $250m (€170m) to construct a facility in China focused on research, development...
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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...
O’Hara launches 3-in-1 coating
02-Nov-2009 - O’Hara Technologies has launched a lab-scale tablet coating system that incorporates a blender and tray...
OctoPlus, Glycotope, Merck KGaA and SCM Pharma on BioPh 2009
29-Oct-2009 - How successful was the BioPh conference in Madrid? in-PharmaTechnologist asked key players attending the inaugural...
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...
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Micromeritics opens new European HQ
26-Oct-2009 - Micromeritics says its new European headquarters in Germany is better positioned to serve its expanding...
Novavax increasing H1N1 vaccine production
26-Oct-2009 - Novavax has entered into a deal with Xcellerex to boost production of its H1N1 vaccine,...
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...
GEA launches contract spray-drying service
22-Oct-2009 - GEA Niro has begun offering contract spray-drying services for drug candidates and clinical trial supplies...
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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Reaxa sets up Indian subsidiary
14-Oct-2009 - Reaxa will set up an Indian subsidiary to manage supply chain, commercial scale production and...
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Millipore rolls out CellReady 3L benchtop bioreactor
12-Oct-2009 - Millipore has expanded its Mobius process technology range with the new CellReady 3L bench-top bioreactor.
CPhI 2009 show preview
08-Oct-2009 - We look ahead to CPhI 2009 which takes place in Madrid, Spain next week and...
Cherwell gets BSI ISO 9001:2008 accreditation
05-Oct-2009 - UK pharmaceutical test media supplier Cherwell Laboratories says its receipt of BSI ISO 9001:2008 accreditation...
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...
Ampac bulks up API capacity with 3 LLC units
24-Sep-2009 - Ampac Fine Chemicals (AFC) has added three new commercial-scale Hastelloy liquid-liquid centrifuges to its API...
Vaccine growth and single-use systems boost Pall in ‘09
16-Sep-2009 - Revenues from Pall’s biopharmaceuticals division grew in fiscal 2009, excluding foreign currency changes, with the...
Targeted Genetics out of crisis after selling AAV kit to Genzyme
10-Sep-2009 - Struggling biotech Targeted Genetics (TG) has sold certain patents and AAV manufacturing technology to fellow...
Cel-Sci hopes “True Cold” gets warm reception in biologics sector
03-Sep-2009 - Biotechnology firm Cel-Sci claims the “True Cold” low-temperature fill and finish service at its new...
