Manufacturing

Appropriate feeding equipment can be selected to meet the challenges of dosing powders that are sticky or do not flow well.

Pharmaceutical Technology spoke with Tim Kearns, pharmaceutical and medical devices manager at Videojet.

OXY-CAPT brings together properties of plastic and glass containers through the combination of oxygen absorption and cyclic olefin copolymer (COP) high barrier layers.

Medicago's new production facility will make plant-based vaccines and therapeutics.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee gave unanimous approval to the landmark 21st Century Cures Act reform bill on May 21, 2015.

Economic benefits, equipment availability, research results, and FDA support are driving progress in continuous processing.

Optical inspection equipment for packaging was displayed at INTERPHEX 2015.

The Denmark facility will incorporate CMC’s Bioreactor 6Pack configuration in one manufacturing line.

Symbiosis Pharmaceutical Services is now offering a new bulk lyophilization (freeze drying) service in response to increasing demand in the manufacture of bulk intermediates and APIs by lyophilization.

Janssen pledges $6 million to Rutgers CSOPS for continuous manufacturing research.

Alexion will construct a biologics facility in Ireland that is its first outside the US.

AstraZeneca announces that it will invest $285 million in a new manufacturing facility in Sweden.

This article looks at data gathered from several studies of a widely marketed chlorobutyl rubber formulation used for vial stoppers and prefilled syringes.

This study evaluates the impact of controlled nucleation on the ability to optimize a lyophilization cycle for a monoclonal antibody formulation.

Traditional sterility testing methods can take 14 days or longer to complete, so a growing number of pharmaceutical manufacturers and quality control

The use of disposables requires careful consideration and planning.

Total cost of ownership, including operating costs, must be considered when deciding between flexible and traditional cleanroom systems.

Aging facilities and inadequate quality systems create drug shortages. Preventing them will require harmonized regulations, and management support for continuous improvement and innovation.

Supply chain consortium establishes a working group to address quality problems in India.

Pall has agreed to be acquired by Danaher for $127.20 per share.

Systec & Solutions' HMI hardware and Werum's PAS-X manufacturing execution system are designed to work together.

Pluristem Therapeutics announces that Japan’s Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency agreed with its methods for the manufacture of PLX-PAD cells.

The agency publishes draft guidance answering industry questions about the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act.

A vaccine patch may eliminate the need for traditional means of vaccine distribution, according to an article in NPR.

The VERISEQ nucleation technology offers a commercially viable technique for cryogenically generating a uniform dispersion of microscopic ice crystals (or ice-fog).