Manufacturing

The radiopharmaceutical CDMO is building a new cGMP facility in Springfield, NJ.

CMDO Piramal Pharma Solutions held a grand opening at a facility they acquired in Sellersville, PA.

A Phase III trial to evaluate safety and efficacy of Janssen’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate, JNJ-78436735, also known as Ad26.COV2.S, is enrolling participants on three continents.

The renovations are expected to be completed by Feb. 1, 2021 and, upon completion, Aphena will move its corporate headquarters to the new location.

The $10 million expansion, which will be completed and fully operational by February 2021, will add on 3760 square feet of production space.

Samsung will offer large-scale commercial manufacturing for drug substance and drug products to support AstraZeneca’s biologics therapeutics capabilities in the Asia-Pacific region.

The rebranding stems from the company’s expanded services which include 3PL services, supply chain transparency solutions, and retail pharma product procurement for over-the-counter medications.

The companies will receive upfront funding from the European Union for the scale-up of manufacturing capabilities at industrial sites in Belgium, Italy, Germany, and France.

The collaboration will expand the manufacturing capacity for lenzilumab, a COVID-19 therapeutic candidate, in advance of a potential Emergency Use Authorization in 2020.

The agreement will Increase global manufacturing capacity for Novavax’s vaccine candidate, NVX-CoV2373, to more than two-billion annualized doses when at full capacity in 2021.

The agreement between the two companies will significantly increase global supply capacity for Lilly's potential COVID-19 treatments.

BioNTech plans to produce up to 250 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, BNT162b2, in the first half of 2021.

The new facility will produce cell therapies for clinical evaluation from discovery through to Phase 2b trials while expanding Takeda’s abilities to develop next-generation cell therapies.

Valneva will supply the UK government with an initial 60 million doses of the vaccine in the second half of 2021, if successful, and will provide more doses thereafter.

Broader application of RFID in pharmaceutical packaging benefits caregivers and patients.

Polymeric containers offer an alternative to glass.

Equipment and facility cleaning is crucial, with more extensive protocols needed for some biologics.

The funding will help advance the vaccine’s clinical evaluation, potential marketing authorization, development and manufacturing in Germany, and the number of participants in late-stage clinical trials.

In addition to increasing production, Thermo Fisher will create 1000 jobs across its global manufacturing sites to further automation capabilities and optimize warehouse and sterilization capacity.

The investment will include new manufacturing lines and increased automation to deliver additional manufacturing capacity.

Syntegon’s redesigned continuous band sealers can be configured for various packages.

The investment at its Madison, WI, facility will expand MilliporeSigma’s capacity for high-potent active pharmaceutical ingredient production and allow for continuous flow manufacturing of ADCs.

The company is investing $130 million to add Phase III through commercial-scale manufacturing suites to its gene therapy campus in Harmans, MD.

The new facility will be adjacent to Thermo Fisher’s newly expanded biologics manufacturing facility.

The new line has the ability to aseptically fill powder, liquid, suspension, and combination forms into vials in clinical or commercial batch sizes.