17-Mar-2006 - Robin Engineering Services has made its first foray into selling machinery exclusively for the pharma industry in a deal with Indian manufacturer Chamunda. The partnership will slash the cost of tableting machinery and fluidised bed driers and processors in the UK.
04-Jan-2006 - A new range of high-speed automatic capsule filling machines has been launched by UK's Hanningfield Process Systems that are suitable for most types of hard shell capsule, and offer pharmaceutical manufacturers rapid capsule size changeover.
09-Oct-2005 - A new tablet-coating machine suitable for small-scale batch production has been introduced by UK company Profile Automation.
06-Oct-2005 - Key Technology subsidiary Symetix has launched a new inspection system fortablets, capsules, and softgels called Vantyx that it claims can achieve 100 percent, in-line inspection at full production speeds.
21-Sep-2005 - UK microencapsulation specialist Micap has seen the departure of both chief executive Michael Brennand and non-executive chairman Ian Gowrie Smith in a bid to cut the executive payroll.
20-Sep-2005 - Key Technology has set up a dedicated pharmaceutical business unit, Symetix, to lend some focus to its efforts to sell automated inspection and specialised conveying systems to the drug industry.
15-Sep-2005 - UK-based Stanelco says it has developed a starch-based alternative to gelatine hardshell capsules that could also offer cost benefits for dietary supplement makers.
01-Sep-2005 - Italian pharmaceutical dosing and packaging equipment manufacturer, MG2, has launched two new dosing machines for hard gelatine capsules, which can handle different dosing combinations in the same capsule, such as powder and tablet, pellets and tablet, or micro-tablets and tablet.
24-Aug-2005 - Japanese pharmaceutical company Shionogi has said it plans to sell its capsule subsidiary Shionogi Qualicaps to private investment group the Carlyle Group in order to focus on its drug development activities.
09-Aug-2005 - Capsugel, the gelatine capsule manufacturing subsidiary of number one drugmaker Pfizer, has expanded its equipment product offering to its pharmaceutical customers by buying the powder micro-dosing technology Xcelodose from Meridica.
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.
13-Jul-2005 - Scientists at Chr Hansen's US research operations have developed a gum acacia-based film coating, suitable for use in pharmaceuticals, that combines low cost, long shelf life and low shipping costs.
15-Jun-2005 - Niro Phama Systems and Courtoy have developed a new module for their range of tablet presses that solves a control dilemma that has faced the pharmaceutical industry ever since automated tablet presses came into use.
08-Jun-2005 - BioProgress has allowed the exclusive partnership with US drugmaker Wyeth on over-the-counter applications of its SWOLLO oral dosage form technology to lapse, reports Phil Taylor.
02-Jun-2005 - Niro Pharma Systems unit Courtoy has improved its MODUL rotary tablet press range with the launch of the MODUL D, a double-sided version that ramps up the unit's production capabilities, writes Phil Taylor.
02-Jun-2005 - Troubled dosage form company BioProgress has taken its first action to restructure its finances in the wake of its recent problems with increasing overheads and slower trading at its US subsidiary.
01-Jun-2005 - UK dosage form specialist BioProgress gave the first insight into its much-anticipated strategic review yesterday, just over a month after the departure of former CEO Graham Hind, reports Phil Taylor.
25-May-2005 - UK company CI Electronics is rolling out a new tablet and capsule weighing system, the SADE SP, in North America via local distributor AC Compacting, reports Phil Taylor.
24-May-2005 - GlaxoSmithKline is planning to use a series of packaging and on-tablet technologies to prevent parallel trade in its HIV drugs Combivir (zidovudine and lamivudine) and Epivir (lamivudine), writes 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 - Belgium's Printing International introduced a single-station version of its ultra high quality (UHQ) tablet printing technology into the US market via local distributor AC Compacting.
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.
13-Apr-2005 - BioProgress has seen its share price slump nearly 40 per cent this morning on concerns that it would miss its financial targets, reports Phil Taylor.
11-Apr-2005 - Pfizer's recently acquired UK business Meridica has supplied the first Xcelodose automated encapsulator system to a contract research company in North America.
16-Mar-2005 - A module has been designed for Niro's Courtoy MODUL tablet press that allows it to keep operating while the cleaning cycle runs.