Manufacturing

Aero Pump’s preservative-free Multidose Eye Dropper System with SideActuationDevice received the CPhI Pharma Award for Excellence in Pharma: Packaging.

FDA has approved Mylan’s biosimilar to Roche’s blockbuster anti-cancer biologic, Herceptin.

The European Commission’s effort to relax supplementary protection certificates to help generic-drug makers and biosimilars producers has sparked strong opposition from the research-based pharmaceutical sector.

Optimizing water and HVAC systems can reduce resource use in all pharma facilities, and, for biopharma manufacturing, the supply chain of consumables should be evaluated.

Rinse sample analysis or visual inspection are risk-based approaches that can be correlated to surface cleanliness to replace surface sampling in a biopharmaceutical equipment cleaning process.

Attracting and retaining qualified bio/pharma experts demands a mix of recognition, rewards, and opportunities.

Is pharma up to the task of developing knowledgeable, motivated employees?

For many processes involving hazardous chemistry, running in flow mode has safety and economic advantages.

Amid business and regulatory uncertainty, bio/pharma experts reveal opinions on salary, recognition, and training.

A QbD approach can address manufacturing complexities in transdermal patch manufacturing.

Cross-functional reliability rooms identify risk and planning metrics, provide insights for production forecasts, and predict trends and areas for improvement.

A technology roadmap aims to drive and consolidate improvements in a process that has remained unchanged for more than 70 years.

In Part I of this article series, the authors discussed the regression control chart method for identifying out-of-trend data in pharmaceutical stability studies. In Part II, the by-time-point method and the multivariate control chart method are investigated, and improved approaches are suggested. The method is illustrated using real data sets.

The VERSA Telemanipulator from Central Research Laboratories (CRL), a Destaco company, is suited for remote-handling applications that involve specific customization requirements.

The Ross, Charles & Son Ross X-Series is a clean-in-place (CIP) ready ultra-high shear mixer for inline emulsification, particle size reduction, and homogenization.

The company has opened a new California facility that, combined with its existing site in Foster City, CA, will quadruple its laboratory footprint for gene therapy products.

Lonza has entered into strategic license agreements for exclusive rights to a gene-therapy platform for developing treatments for hearing and balance disorders.

In a recently released statement, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb warned of an amino acids supply shortage and gave an update on a saline supply shortage, both due to the impact of hurricanes on Puerto Rican manufacturing facilities.

Biocad and Sothema Labs have partnered to release cancer-treating biosimilars into the North African market.

The acquisition gives GE Healthcare access to a nanofiber-based platform purification technology that can offer improvements in biopharmaceutical productivity.

PTI moved to a new facility in Belgium that will house its headquarters and a R&D center for tablet dedusting, capsule polishing, and testing technology.

Fette Compacting and Glatt have joined forces to develop integrated solutions for the continuous manufacturing of oral solid-dosage drug forms.

Manufacturers and trading partners struggle to meet drug tracking requirements

The facilities in Brescia, Italy and Karlskoga and Uppsala, Sweden, are the latest of Recipharm’s sites to be equipped to supply serialized products to the United States.

Pharma trends translate into increased need for not only external partners, but those will capabilities that can help advance today’s drug development and manufacturing challenges.