Manufacturing

The Industrial Internet of Things and new tools such as smart glasses can improve training and daily tasks for pharmaceutical manufacturing operations.

A ceremony was held at Cambrex’s Karlskoga facility to mark the commencement of a long-term manufacturing agreement with AstraZeneca for a key intermediate.

Labels must have special features to prevent tampering of pharmaceutical packaging.

Sartorius Stedim Biotech will equip Abzena’s contract development and manufacturing facilities in Bristol, PA, and San Diego, CA, with single-use equipment and scale-up technologies.

The company completed its oral solid dose production facility in Suzhou, China.

Athenex is moving forward with the construction of a new 320,000-square-foot pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Dunkirk, NY, and has hired the German engineering firm, M+W, to design and construct the facility.

The Tamper Evident Labeller from LSS Labelling Systems Scandinavia is compliant with the European Falsified Medicines Directive.

AptarGroup’s Landfill Free Certification program addresses the issue of waste production from pharmaceutical manufacturing processes by prompting its facilities to reduce and reuse operation waste.

The companies aim to develop a potential zinc finger protein transcription factor-based gene therapy for treating Lou Gehrig’s disease.

The companies aim to discover and develop locked nucleic acid oligonucleotides as orally available therapies for treating inflammatory bowel diseases.

A single-use DPI from Perlen Packaging, which offers lower-cost production and a more affordable device for emerging markets, won a 2017 CPhI Pharma Award.

FDA Commissioner Gottlieb expects that the saline and amino acid drug shortages from Puerto Rican manufacturing facilities will improve in the early part of 2018.

In a roundtable Q&A with biopharma executives, the vulnerability and challenges of dealing with extractables and leachables in single-use bioreactor bags are explored.

The companies will collaborate on the development of vaccines to expand GeoVax’s cancer immunotherapy program.

The IFPAC annual meeting on advancing the understanding and control of manufacturing processes using process analytical technology will be held Feb. 11-14, 2018.

The contract manufacturing company has completed construction on a new aseptic fill/finish facility in Wuxi, China.

The Industrial Internet of Things can be used in the bio/pharmaceutical industry to monitor equipment health, optimize processes, and enable modular facilities.

PharMEDium Services, LLC voluntarily recalled some lots of product because of a lack of sterility assurance.

Proper selection and installation optimizes fluid system performance.

Closures that protect solid-dosage drugs and the capping equipment that applies them have new product-protecting features.

Measurements by a drone-based online pressure monitoring system help identify weak points in the filling line, enabling the process to be optimized.

The Wilden Quattroflow QF10k size pump from PSG, a Dover company, has been designed to fill the gap between the existing QF4400/5050 and QF20k pump sizes.

Sterile-molded filling assemblies from AdvantaPure are suited for single-use vial and syringe filling.

SupaPore Junior cartridge filters from Amazon Filters are suited for low flow up to 2m3/Hr of fluids and 100Nm3/Hr of gas processes, and are available in 2.5- and 5-in. sizes.

Ross, Charles & Son’s four-gallon model PDDM-4 planetary dual disperser is suited for vacuum operation, mixing thick slurries and highly-filled pastes. Ross, Charles & Son’s four-gallon model PDDM-4 planetary dual disperser is suited for vacuum operation, mixing thick slurries and highly-filled pastes.

Bio/pharma professionals manage expectations amid industry uncertainty.

Will business decisions and drug pricing policies help or hinder science and drug approval advances in 2018?

Pharmaceutical companies and contract manufacturing organizations report lack of readiness for the US Drug Supply Chain Security Act serialization deadline.

A review of 2017 advancements from the Open-SCS working group with Charlie Gifford, group technical director.

Everyone may not be ready for the deadline, but open standards based on GAMP and GS1 will soon be released; more companies are also leveraging what they’ve learned from serialization to improve overall efficiency.