10-Aug-2005 - Cambrex has launched a new system for stripping out bacterial endotoxin from protein production systems that it claims is associated with less product waste than current procedures.
28-Jul-2005 - Italian processing machinery company IMA Group has decided to increase its investment in a Chinese joint venture to tap into a growth market at a time when its established territories in the West are showing lacklustre growth, reports Phil Taylor.
28-Jul-2005 - Biopharma Process Systems of the UK has extended the range of freeze driers it offers in the UK and Ireland with the launch of VirTual for pilot scale bulk freeze drying applications.
25-Jul-2005 - Buck Systems, part of Niro Pharma Systems, has launched a laboratory-scale blender that allows users to analyse powders as they are being blended and monitor changing powder characteristics, achieving the ideal blend as quickly and economically as possible, according to the firm.
19-Jul-2005 - Invitrogen has opened a bioproduction facility in Australia to make bovine sera products and reagents used in basic research and the production of vaccines and biotherapeutic drugs.
18-Jul-2005 - A particle finder, which can determine particle size, number and shape within 15 seconds, has been launched by German equipment supplier rap.ID, which believes such technology could solve the problem of foreign particle contamination in pharmaceutical products.
08-Jul-2005 - Radleys of the UK has introduced a new refrigerated heat circulator that can improve the efficiency of process development, according to the company.
05-Jul-2005 - A major food equipment manufacturer has announced plans to expand into pharmaceutical equipment and processing, following its purchase from Italian owners CIR last month.
04-Jul-2005 - Batch control systems are becoming increasingly used by the pharmaceutical and food industries as they increasingly rely on automation to improve productivity and product quality.
30-Jun-2005 - Bayer Technology Services has launched a novel apparatus for virus inactivation and disinfection to improve the safety of drug products.
28-Jun-2005 - Chiral Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Daicel Chemical Industries, of Japan, has licensed a chromatography column technology that promises to be particularly useful for the separation of chiral drugs.
23-Jun-2005 - Biopharma Process Systems has introduced a new small-scale freeze-drying system to the UK and Irish markets manufactured by France's Usifroid.
15-Jun-2005 - UK-headquartered Invensys has divested its stake in the Israeli joint venture Foxboro NMR, which focuses the application of nuclear magnetic resonance imaging technology in the process industries.
07-Jun-2005 - Scientists in the UK have developed a way to harness magnetic fields in a way that allows some of the heaviest solid materials to be levitated, raising the prospect of a new way to separate and mix particles in the pharmaceutical industry, reports Phil Taylor.
31-May-2005 - In-PharmaTechnologist.com presents its periodic round up of personnel news in the pharmaceutical manufacturing and drug development sectors.
31-May-2005 - France's AES Laboratories has developed a system for the rapid monitoring of air in the cleanroom or pharmaceutical production facility for microbial contamination, without having to wait days for culturing, reports Phil Taylor.
25-May-2005 - Information technology giant IBM has developed a software architecture that promises to modernise the pharmaceutical industry's manufacturing processes, often accused of lagging behind those of other industries such as chemicals and foods, reports Phil Taylor.
24-May-2005 - The primary difficulty facing anyone given the task of designing a state-of-the-art laboratory is that they generally don't have access to a crystal ball to tell them exactly what will be at the leading edge of technology in two to three years time - the average time it takes to design and construct a facility, reports Phil Taylor.
23-May-2005 - BioProgress has appointed Richard Trevillion as chief executive, bolstering its executive management just over a month after the dosage film specialist issued a trading statement that sparked a 40 per cent slump in its UK-listed shares, which prompted the resignantion of former CEO Graham Hind.
23-May-2005 - Companies that want to develop systems that comply with the US Food and Drug Administration's PAT (process analytical technology) recommendations can tap into a new modular fluid handling and measurement concept in development at a consortium of companies, reports Phil Taylor.
19-May-2005 - Nanotechnology has the potential to radically alter the quality and cleanliness of laboratory and pharmaceutical workplaces.
18-May-2005 - A pin mill launched by Hosokawa Micron promises to reduce energy use and improve the quality of grinding performance.
18-May-2005 - Mathis Instruments has introduced a wireless version of its effusivity sensor - the ESP - that is suitable for use in pharmaceutical production settings, reports Phil Taylor.
16-May-2005 - Genevac has introduced new technology for its Model HT-4X centrifugal evaporator whereby the system can be used to accelerate lyophilisation of water and water mixtures by as much as three hundred per cent.
11-May-2005 - Peakdale Molecular and Dynamic Extractions are to collaborate on the development of a new separation technology with applications in drug discovery, development and manufacture.