15-Mar-2011 - German machine tool maker Fette Compacting has set up a tablet compression and flowability testing centre in Goa, India.
03-Mar-2011 - Agilent Technolgies, the Santa Clara, US-based scientific instrument manufacturer, has acquired instrument manufacturer and contract research organisation (CRO), Biocius Life Sciences, for an undisclosed amount.
17-Feb-2011 - Pfizer’s Capsugel unit has bought an injection molding technology that, it believes, will expand its capsule filling business into new “high value segments.”
03-Feb-2011 - Californian bioproduction expansions could create jobs in 2011 but changes to education are needed to sustain growth, according to a survey.
25-Jan-2011 - Torrent Pharma has begun construction of $75m API and formulation facilities in India to support its international expansion programme.
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.
29-Nov-2010 - Demand for high-end capsule filling technologies, particularly those used for early clinical development projects, has increased in 2010 according to Capsugel.
18-Oct-2010 - Drug delivery and pharmaceutical coating technologies firm SurModics will cut jobs and reorganise operations in a bid to reverse falling revenues and tumbling profits.
21-Sep-2010 - Elan Drug Technologies (EDT) says new bespoke oral solid dose (OSD) service will take its contract manufacturing business beyond drug delivery.
06-Sep-2010 - Colorcon says proximity to emerging drug manufacturing markets was key driver for new Turkey technical service lab.
28-Jul-2010 - Mylan hopes new solid-dose packaging plant in Hungary will help it increase market share in Eastern Europe.
28-Jul-2010 - Cellexus has expanded its disposable bioreactor offering with a unit designed to give biomanufacturers greater flexibility in their choice of cell lines.
27-Jul-2010 - Colorcon will buy Indian group Pharmaceuitcal Coatings to expand both its tablet film coating business and presence in “rapidly growing” pharmaceutical market.
26-Jul-2010 - Sensient Technologies hopes investment in pharmaceutical coating capacity will boost its pharmaceutical sector business.
21-Jul-2010 - Dow Wolff Cellulosics (DWC) and Colorcon say new excipient meets with growing demand for direct compression in tablet manufacturing.
19-Jul-2010 - Penn Pharma and Xcelience have formed an Xcelodose-focused joint venture to meet client demand in Europe and Asia for powder-in-capsule (PIC) services.
02-Jun-2010 - ISP Pharmaceuticals has expanded its extrusion spheronisation offering with the installation of new dedicated technology at its laboratory in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
22-Apr-2010 - Delegates lucky enough to have made the trip to Interphex 2010 in New York, US bore witness to the launch of a wide range of new drug manufacturing technologies with products by O'Hara, Corning and PTI being some of the highlights.
25-Mar-2010 - The UK budget was “a missed opportunity” to encourage manufacturing, according to UK Chemical Industries Association (CIA), but was free from unexpected tax increases.
18-Mar-2010 - CEO Steffen Mittwich updates in-PharmaTechnologist on Atacama Labs' pneumatic dry granulation (PDG) API processing tech, its deal with German CMO Excella and future development plans.
26-Jan-2010 - The SPMC of Sri Lanka is seeking a $10m (€7.1m) loan to buy high-speed tablet and capsule filling machines and ensure it can meet the island’s demand for safe medicines.
23-Nov-2009 - GEA Pharma Systems has extended its agency agreement with India’s Ace Technologies to include its range of lyophil freeze-dryers in a bid to further open up the market.
16-Nov-2009 - A consortium including GlaxoSmithKline and GEA has been formed to push continuous processing and improve pharma manufacturing efficiency in the UK in response to competition from emerging markets.
09-Nov-2009 - BASF says the new coloured tablet extension to its Kollicoat IR coating polymer will help manufacturers produce patient-friendly pills.
02-Nov-2009 - O’Hara Technologies has launched a lab-scale tablet coating system that incorporates a blender and tray dry oven inserts to cut capital expense and GMP spaced needed perform these tasks.