The race to buy Pfizer’s OTC business – including Advil painkillers and Centrum vitamins – may have collapsed after both GlaxoSmithKline and Reckitt Benckiser officially walked away from the auction within days of each other.
IPEC Federation and PDA will publish a technical report in 2019 to provide drugmakers guidelines on how to implement risk assessment challenges of excipient supply.
AMPAC Fine Chemicals will boost Noramco Inc.’s supply of active pharmaceutical ingredients and intermediates to make abuse prevention and attention deficit disorder treatments, and cannabinoids.
The Danish drugmaker says it will take responsibility for commercial manufacturing after acquiring Parkinson’s disease candidate foliglurax in a deal worth up to €905m ($1.1bn).
CDMO Ardena has purchased active pharmaceutical ingredient and nanomedicine maker ChemConnection, as part of an acquisition strategy focused on development services.
Partnering with CMOs makes sense for emerging biotechs, says Ardelyx exec James Kanter, who relies on networking and clear communication guidelines to manage third-party relationships.
Indena says industry’s recognition of the high quality of Italian-made ingredients has driven investments in an HPAPI kilolab and a multi-purpose pilot plant near Milan.
Axim says its proprietary methods to extract and microencapsulate cannabinoid molecules make purer active pharmaceutical ingredients than traditional methods.
Reckitt Benckiser Group says it will be disciplined in its M&A strategy but remains silent on speculation it is buying Pfizer’s consumer healthcare business.
