Agreements
IPR to Service Manesty Machines
Manesty (Fairfield, NJ,
http://www.manesty.com/) announced that IPR Inc. (Bartlett, IL,
http://www.iprinc.net/) will undertake all original equipment manufacturer (OEM) service work for Manesty's tablet presses and coaters in North
America. IPR has experience servicing, repairing, and rebuilding Manesty tablet presses to clients' standards. Through IPR,
Manesty will offer direct OEM service to all its North American customers.
Acquisitions
GE Acquires Wave Biotech
GE Healthcare (Chalfont St.Giles, UK,
http://www.gehealthcare.com/) acquired Wave Biotech (Somerset, NJ,
http://www.wavebiotech.com/), a supplier of disposable manufacturing technologies for the biopharmaceutical industry. The acquisition includes Wave Biotech's
subsidiary, Wave Europe, and will allow GE Healthcare to expand its offering of products and services for the manufacture of biopharmaceuticals such
as antibodies and vaccines. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Bosch to Buy Pharmatec
The Bosch Group (Stuttgart, Germany,
http://www.bosch.com/) plans to acquire Pharmatec GmbH (Dresden, Germany,
http://www.pharmatec.de/), from Fresenius ProServe GmbH. The transaction will include Pharmatec's subsidiary Schoeller-Bleckmann Medizintechnik Ges.m.b.H, headquartered in Ternitz, Austria.
Bosch develops and manufactures process and packaging machinery for the pharmaceutical industries. Pharmatec focuses on hygienic
and aseptic process technologies for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.The purchase price was not disclosed,
and the transaction is subject to approval by antitrust authorities.
People
AdvantaPure Names Director of Software Solutions
AdvantaPure (Southampton, PA,
http://www.advantapure.com/) promoted Jeffrey D. Johnson to the new position of director of software solutions. Johnson's focus will be on AdvantaPure's
line of radio-frequency identification (RFID) tracking products, including "GammaTag," the company's gamma-sterilizable RFID
tag. His new duties include developing, installing, and supporting the company's RFID products.
Johnson previously was Advantapure's network administrator. He joined NewAge Industries, AdvantaPure's parent company, in
1990 as a sales representative.
IPS Announces Appointments
Integrated Project Services (IPS, Lafayette Hill, PA,
http://www.ipsdb.com/), an engineering firm serving the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, appointed Eugene K.Martini senior director,
projectdelivery operations. In this role, Martini will oversee the daily operations of that division.He has been involved
with manufacturing and development projects regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration for the past 15 years. Martini recently worked at CDI Corporation as director of project management.
IPS also appointed David J. Brown director, project services. Brown will lead the project-services and project-controls teams
to develop solutions to support client projects and business objectives. He will also implement various project-controls functions
such as estimating, planning, cost control, change management, progress measurement, risk management, and cashflow projections
for pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical clients.
