12-Jan-2011 - Mobile software developer Wind River says Fedegari Autoclavi has adopted its VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS) for its Therma4 control systems for its industrial sterilisation machines.
04-Jan-2011 - Merck KGaA has opened a new centre in India to showcase its range of technology solutions to the country’s rapidly expanding pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries.
04-Jan-2011 - in-Pharmatechnologist presents a roundup of the latest deals and acquisitions in the pharmaceutical sector with news from Optima, SPI and DPS Engineering.
16-Dec-2010 - DSM Pharmaceutical Products has expanded its portfolio of alcohol dehydrogenases in a licensing deal with German custom enzyme developer c-LEcta.
08-Dec-2010 - Takeda is collaborating with Baxter to establish a Vero cell-based influenza manufacturing facility in Japan and launch vaccines in the country.
07-Dec-2010 - Lanxess has opened an ion exchange resin production facility in India to cater for growing pharmaceutical manufacturing sector demand for ultrapure water.
06-Dec-2010 - WikiLeaks has published a list of overseas biopharmaceutical facilities considered vital to US national security as part of its release of leaked diplomatic cables.
24-Nov-2010 - Drug manufacturers do not pay enough attention to the colour of their drugs, according to researchers examining the importance of aesthetics in pharmaceutical over-the-counter (OTC) products.
18-Nov-2010 - German pharmaceutical giant Merck's life science division, EMD Millipore, has launched its 'single-use' Mobius 3L CellReady Bioreactor, for use in the development and optimisation of cell culture processes.
18-Nov-2010 - Agilent Technologies has launched its 708-DS Dissolution Apparatus, a quality control instrument that can be set up for manual or automated applications to measure the release rate of an API over time.
17-Nov-2010 - GEA Pharma Systems stamps its authority in the Asian Pacific’s emerging freeze drying industry acquiring Beijing Sino-German Tianhe Technology (BGST).
04-Nov-2010 - ATMI has acquired Artelis, a Belgian biotech firm, in an effort to “get closer to customers” by widening its disposable technology portfolio to the life sciences research and manufacturing sector.
26-Oct-2010 - ATMI opens new packaging plant in China; positions for growth of bioprocess business in Asia and sees modest growth of life sciences business in Q3.
25-Oct-2010 - Sanyo Biomedical is launching a cost-effective, space-saving stand-alone cell processing work station (CPWS) for GMP production.
21-Oct-2010 - A developmental purification system for Antibody-Drug-Conjugates will be launched by ADC Biotechnology (ADBC), a spin off from Reaxa, which promises reduced manufacturing costs for “magic bullet” cancer drugs.
21-Oct-2010 - Bio-Research Products (BRP) launches lower cost, industrial chloroperoxidase (CPO) for organic syntheses in pharmaceutical manufacturing.
19-Oct-2010 - Industrial catalysis firm WR Grace has been OKed to acquire fine chemicals group Synthetech by the US Bankruptcy Court.
19-Oct-2010 - Prosonix expects high demand for innovative particle processing technologies in the $24bn (€17bn) a-year respiratory pharmaceuticals market over the next few years.
13-Oct-2010 - Almac invests $4m in biocatalysis R&D, describing such technologies as the way forward for the cost efficient production of highly chiral APIs and intermediates.
13-Oct-2010 - Pharmatek Laboratories has once again expanded service offerings at its San Diego, California facility by adding two roller compactors to its solid oral dosage form manufacturing capabilities.
13-Oct-2010 - New ‘chiral center’ in Belgium promises to help drug firms comply with regulatory demands for quality and accelerate registration of new compounds.
07-Oct-2010 - GlaxoSmithKline has told its workforce that 55 jobs will be axed at its manufacturing base in Currabinny, Co Cork, and 66 jobs will be lost as a result of revised shift-working plans.
30-Sep-2010 - SP Scientific is combining its lyophilisation equipment with ControLyo from Praxair to enable precise control over the freeze-drying process.
29-Sep-2010 - Sheffield Bio-Science takes on responsibility for global sales, distribution and development of Girus Life Sciences’ chemically defined Regocel supplements.
20-Sep-2010 - Life Technologies has concluded license agreements, providing rights to its proprietary Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell lines for production of recombinant proteins used as therapeutic agents and vaccines.