Contract Manufacturing, General

With the $252-million acquisition of contract development, manufacturing, and testing organization Avista Pharma Solutions, Cambrex will enter the market for early stage small-molecule development and testing services.

In preparation for the upcoming US Drug Supply Chain Security Act deadline, Metrics Contract Services has expanded serialization capabilities at its oral solid-dose commercial manufacturing site in Greenville, NC.

Experts believe that the contract development and manufacturing organization market will reach $17.38 billion by 2022, with disruptive business models using Industrial Internet of Things (IIot) and single-use technologies proving more profitable and efficient in the long term.

Ardena has moved into its expanded headquarters, located in Gent, Belgium, as a result of continued growth.

Pharmatech Associates International Contracting and Services is a new company headquartered in Doha, Qatar, that will provide product development, facility design, and construction for high quality pharmaceutical and biotech products at low cost.

The expansion adds new capabilities and enhances existing service offerings for both oral and parenteral dosage forms.

The company has rolled out the first batch of TRACON Pharmaceutical’s lead product candidate from its Singapore-based single-use bioreactor.

Bioprocessing and manufacturing events bioLIVE and BioProduction Congress will take place as one event adjacent to CPhI Worldwide in Frankfurt, Germany, on November 5–7, 2019.

The growth in adoption of single-use systems for commercial manufacturing will be dramatic in coming years.

Demand for highly potent APIs continues to rise.

A project funded by BioProNET will investigate optimization for bioprocessing of gene therapy vectors using hydrodynamic fluid flow fields.

The contract development and manufacturing organization released its first serialized products to Europe from its facilities in Lisbon, Portugal and Stockholm, Sweden.

Cambrex will create a new center of excellence for API process development and clinical supply at its High Point, NC facility and expand its API manufacturing facility in Italy.

According to CPhI’s annual report, the therapeutic antibody drug conjugates (ADC) market is expected to reach $4 billion by 2023.

Clovis Oncology and Lonza celebrated the grand opening of a dedicated production train at Lonza’s Visp, Switzerland site for manufacturing Rubraca (rucaparib).

The company says the new equipment will reduce sample turnaround times and increase variant detection quality and accuracy.

The new facility will include comprehensive mammalian process development and manufacturing capabilities.

At this year’s CPhI Worldwide congress in Madrid, Spain, Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) will present its range of products spanning probiotics and microbiome solutions to highly purified, injectable-grade vegetable oils.

Luxembourg-based pharmaceutical group, C2 Pharma (formerly known as Centroflora CMS) successfully validated the manufacturing process for two APIs-digoxin and digoxin micron.

Rentschler Fill Solutions received a certificate of GMP compliance from the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety for its new aseptic fill/finish facility.

Industry experts discuss the formulation and development issues that should be considered when addressing scale up from small-scale batches to commercial production.

Vetter chose a winner from four teams that worked for three months to develop ideas for applying digital technology to injectable pharmaceuticals.

While food, shelter, and clothing are the primal essentials for life, hope-as embodied by modern medicine-has now become part of that human expectation.

The sterile-manufacturing contract development manufacturing organization is approved by FDA for viral vector manufacturing fill/finish processing at its biologics facility in Scotland, UK.

The company will showcase the evolving role of vitamins and lipid APIs in pharmaceutical applications at CPhI Worldwide 2018.

The contract development and manufacturing organization expanded its analytical chemistry suite and added a new office in Boston, MA.

Evonik completed a EUR 36 million expansion of its contract-manufacturing capabilities for API and advanced intermediates in the United States and Germany.

The $425-million acquisition adds formulation development and finished dosage manufacturing capabilities to Cambrex’s existing global API manufacturing network.

Avara Pharmaceutical Services acquired Sandoz’s sterile manufacturing facility for injectable medicines in Boucherville, Quebec, Canada.

More than 120 healthcare organizations plan to bring competition to generic drug market.