Manufacturing

CMOs must embrace flexibility in their technology decisions and business arrangements.

Eric Jayjock, Patheon’s director of continuous manufacturing, discusses the CDMO’s plans for its new continuous manufacturing business.

Successful development requires coordinating and aligning drug and device design, focusing on a complete drug delivery system that meets patients’ needs.

TraceLink’s Graham Clark, director of contract supplier relationships and cofounder, and Brian Daleiden, vice-president of industry marketing, shared insights into industry’s serialization readiness as well as recent trends and developments with Pharmaceutical Technology.

Advanced digital ledger technologies offer potential solutions, but are still several years away from practical use.

The contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) Aesica Pharmaceuticals has had a serialization program in place for the past five years, and recently installed capabilities for serialization at all its packaging facilities.

Elevating the project management function can improve transparency and enable companies to react faster to internal and external change.

Investigational failures and discrepancies can be avoided through the proper execution and documentation of investigations.

New patent for automated cell processing technology provides commercially viable automated CMC solution for developing CAR-T cell therapies.

Apace Packaging LLC labeling error initiates national recall of cyclobenzaprine HCL and amantadine HCL (Lot 16710).

A sampling of new laboratory equipment showcases streamlined operations.

Lonza introduces new modular complex that offers flexibility and individually tailored solutions to biomanufacturing challenges.

Corning and Gerresheimer have been working together to accelerate innovations for pharmaceutical glass packaging.

ipharm set up a manufacturing line at its facility in Sweden using LIDD’s NanoZolid technology.

Manufacturing capacity will be increased by one third and approximately 300 new high-wage and highly-skilled jobs will be created at the Fremont site.

JLL ranks top 10 US life-sciences locations where scientists prefer to work and finds that location and workplace culture are key priorities.

Industry collaboration group releases technology roadmap to address pressure on biopharmaceutical manufacturers to innovate biomanufacturing processes.

The agency will lead an international team to create a Supply Chain Security Toolkit of resources to educate the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries on supply chain vulnerabilities.

Updated ISPE guidance offers risk assessment guidance to avoid cross contamination in multiproduct pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities.

A Merck, Pfizer, and Corning collaboration resulted in development of Corning Valor Glass for improved drug storage and delivery and will create US jobs.

Contract manufacturers await a promising pipeline of drug products to jump-start stagnant growth.

The advantages of single-use systems become clear as they become more broadly implemented.

Electronic systems allow biopharma manufacturing companies to meet data integrity requirements and optimize practices.

Intertek seeks to bring cost efficiencies to the pharmaceutical supply chain through confidential shared audits.

Catalent expands the scope of the OptiForm Solution Suite to bridge gap from late-stage discovery to Phase I trials.

The addition of 20,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing and office space increases Avecia’s Milford, Ma, oligonucleotide capacity to 3.0 mol.

Higher-flow peristaltic pumps from Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group are designed for upstream and downstream bioprocessing with single-use fluid path assemblies.

Gerresheimer’s glass and plastic prefillable syringes will come with an innovative, integrated, passive syringe safety solution, acquired through an exclusive licence from West Pharmaceutical Services.

A recent paper coauthored by FDA’s Lawrence Yu and Michael Kopcha describes how the industry might modernize drug manufacturing.

Pfizer’s new format of ibuprofen (AdvilR Liqui-GelsR Minis) uses Catalent’s softgel technology to deliver the formulation in a more concentrated fill, resulting in smaller capsules.