Manufacturing

The parenteral manufacturing industry is taking action to address particulate contamination issues.

A G-CON, GEA, and Pfizer collaboration developed a PCMM (portable, continuous, miniature, and modular) system to produce oral solid-dosage drugs.

Enterprise quality management systems can help shift the quality emphasis from corrective to preventive actions.

This review highlights relevant physicochemical drug properties and formulation design considerations critical to quality and performance of the sublingual tablets.

Supply chain security and quality group Rx-360 driven by patient safety.

CDMO DPT Laboratories, a specialist in semi-solid and liquid dosage forms, announced that it has implemented a high-speed bottle-filling center at its San Antonio location.

Many factors can contribute to tablet manufacturing problems. Tablet tooling failures are generally the result of one, or a combination of issues.

The new Argos biomanufacturing facility in North Carolina will include automated production using the company's Arcelis technology.

Johnson& Johnson is collaborating with WHO and others on clinical testing, development, production, and distribution of an Ebola vaccine.

Contract Packaging Resources issued a voluntary recall of naproxen sodium tablets because some cartons contain bottles of ibuprofen.

The WuXi AppTec bulk cell culture production facility, designed by Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB), received an honorable mention in the 2014 Facility of the Year Awards at the annual meeting of International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) in Las Vegas last week.

Lilly announces the closure of its Guayama, Puerto Rico manufacturing facility amid continued investments at other plants.

Changes in compressed air consumption are an early indicator of problems that need correction.

Packaging machines, coding equipment, inspection and data capture systems, material handling, controls, and software must work together in a serialization system.

PharmaSpray delivers a consistent, validatable amount of dry lubricant.

Manufacturers using highly potent APIs must examine cross-contamination routes and determine acceptable limits.

The intermittent cartoner can be equipped with a variety of in-feed systems and can handle different package formats and closure options.

IDT Biologika completes large-scale biologics finishing facility in Dessau, Germany.

Monitoring device uses thermal imaging to inspect 100% of sachets and pouches.

A disperser blade and low-speed anchor combine mixing actions to ensure turnover.

Laser-marking speed exceeds 410,000 pharmaceutical pills per hour.

New polymers from Dow presented at CPhI 2014 help maximize a pharmaceutical product's solubilization performance.

Capsugel has received EXCiPACT certification for its sites in Bornem, Belgium, and Colmar, France.

The Ross VSL-50 is a portable 50-gallon agitated vessel with silicone heating blankets and temperature sensors fabricated in stainless steel 316 and designed for atmospheric operation.

The recovery of an occasional mold does not merit any particular concern. On the other hand, evidence of mold proliferation indicative of infection of facilities or equipment must be taken seriously and requires the prompt implementation of corrective and preventive actions.