Manufacturing

Genentech, AmerisourceBergen, and McKesson are providing pharma user requirements for a new project that will evaluate blockchain‘s potential in meeting requirements of the Drug Supply Chain Security Act, and preventing pharmaceutical counterfeiting.

Lonza has announced plans to acquire a clinical-stage mammalian manufacturing facility in the United States from Shire.

Under Project BioShield, the agency could provide more than $170 million in funding to purchase and support late-stage development of Ebola vaccines and therapeutic drugs.

The Danish biotechnology company has been awarded a sole-source BARDA contract valued at more than $539 million for a freeze-dried smallpox vaccine.

The iCON brand aims to offer flexible, rapidly deployable systems for biopharmaceutical manufacturing.

GE Healthcare opened a 3D printing lab in Sweden that will speed the launch of products for bio/pharma manufacturing, such as a custom chromatography column.

PCI Pharma Services, a pharmaceutical outsourcing services provider, will acquire Millmount Healthcare, a pharmaceutical and healthcare contract packaging services provider, to expand its European services.

Virgin Atlantic Cargo and Delta Cargo have opened a new Pharma Zone at their joint facility at London Heathrow Airport for the handling and storage of pharmaceutical shipments.

Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, a developer of spider silk-based fibers, will open a new facility in Michigan to combine its research and production efforts.

CDMOs have established strategies for handling new chemical entities with unknown biological activity.

Reeling from financial and tropical storms, Puerto Rico needs stable industry for recovery.

The European Commission is striving to tackle environmental pollution by pharmaceuticals as a means of curbing antimicrobial resistance.

Tools aid scale-up and comparison of single-use and stainless-steel bioreactors.

Mergers and acquisitions are positive for the CDMO industry, but there is a downside.

Fluid Air’s PolarDry spray dryers use electrostatic technology, providing low-temperature spray drying, encapsulation, and selective agglomeration in the creation of particles.

Ross, Charles & Son’s VersaMix is a multi-shaft mixer designed for viscous applications requiring a high level of accuracy and batch-to-batch consistency.

Manufacturers introduce innovations in glass and plastic packaging for injectables.

This article discusses fully automatic inspection of glass and plastic containers and factors that affect particle detection rate. 

Instead of rigidly applying statistical tools, experts suggest that pharma embrace statistical thinking, but focus on reducing variability and adding value for patients.

Lawrence Yu, deputy director of the Office of Pharmaceutical Quality (OPQ), Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), and his FDA colleague, Michael Kopcha highlight the importance of Six Sigma approaches to continuous improvement in the pharmaceutical industry.

Internet of things, advanced analytics, and blockchain solutions such as smart contracts promise to give manufacturers more control over products and supply chains.

DoKaSch Temperature Solutions, a Germany-based provider of climate-controlled air cargo containers, announced that its Opticooler air cargo containers are now available in the United States.

Eurofins Scientific has opened a £4-million (US$5-million) pharmaceutical chemistry and microbiology facility in Livingston, Scotland, to support the company’s product and water testing businesses in the UK.

The Steris VHP DC-A atmospheric pass-through chamber is designed for aseptic drug manufacturing and laboratory research.

AbbVie, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myerse Squibb, and Eli Lilly and Company said they are working to restore normal operations at their respective facilities and continuing recovery efforts.

KBI Biopharma, a biopharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing organization, will manufacture an antibody and a fusion protein developed by Heat Biologics’ subsidiary.

Fresenius Kabi broke ground on a previously announced $250 million expansion of its Melrose Park, IL, manufacturing facility.

The FDA commissioner made a statement about the agency’s efforts to ensure patient access to safe compounded medicines.

The Gx Elite vials are the result of comprehensive optimization measures in the conversion process, which have focused on designing out the risk to create product flaws during production including the removal of all glass-to-glass contact beginning with the tubing material all the way through final packaging.

UPS has revealed a new system to improve drug supply chain security, in compliance with the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA).