Manufacturing

Microbial identity data can be critical for determining contamination sources.

Success depends on supplier communication and transparency, but it’s up to buyers to demand the right information and to look at the vendor’s overall business goals.

Once described as “throwing processes over the wall,” tech transfer is evolving into close collaboration and communication, as potential problems are considered sooner, and new technology is applied. Joseph Szczesiul, director of technical services for UPM Pharmaceuticals, shares best practices.

Charles Ross & Son Company recently developed two specialty customized 150-gallon double planetary mixers (Model DPM-150) with patented high viscosity blades.

Adents' DispaX offers improved supply-chain traceability for pharmaceutical warehouses, wholesalers, distributors, and dispensers such as pharmacies and hospitals.

Owner of Immuno Biotech, David Noakes, has been sentenced to 15 months in prison over charges of manufacturing, selling, and supplying an unlicensed medicine, as well as money laundering.

In a strategic move to strengthen its core life science businesses, Bayer announces 900 R&D and 350 manufacturing job cuts.

Contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), Yposkesi, has entered into an agreement in principle with Axovant Sciences.

Five additional European Union member states have been confirmed by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as capable of performing good manufacturing practice inspections at a level equivalent to that of the United Sates

The investment builds on a collaboration the companies entered into in 2007 for various biomanufacturing projects.

FDA’s 21st Century goals can be realized by using a multi-purpose manufacturing facility with a flexible design that provides reliable production without extensive regulatory oversight.

The contract research organization has increased its US-based early phase clinical capacity and doubled its specialty lab space.

GE’s new facility, which will be operational in 2019, will produce a fiber-based chromatography platform for more efficient biopharmaceutical purification.

Catalent will expand primary packaging capabilities and commission an automated, high-speed bottling line for clinical packaging of capsules and tablets.

Cobra, Pall, and Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult are collaborating to develop continuous manufacturing for gene therapy production.

The new center will integrate biologics drug discovery, development, clinical manufacturing, and commercial manufacturing.

FDA has issued a warning letter to Mylan citing GMP violations of finished pharmaceutical products manufactured at the company’s Morgantown, WV, facility.

Pharmaceutical manufacturers must stay compliant with changing regulations for hazardous waste disposal.

The University of South Australia is working to develop needle-free vaccines for Zika, chikingunya, and peanut allergy in a collaboration with Australian biotechnology company Sementis and Enesi Pharma, a United Kingdom-based pharmaceutical company.

The vaccine producer announced an expansion to its Holly Springs, NC, manufacturing facility where it will increase production of its cell-based quadrivalent influenza vaccine.

The new collaborative center aims to serve as a hub for innovations in drug development and manufacturing.

Under the new long-term agreement, Sartorius Stedim Biotech will continue to offer Lonza media and buffer products under non-exclusive terms.

In preparation for the upcoming US Drug Supply Chain Security Act deadline, Metrics Contract Services has expanded serialization capabilities at its oral solid-dose commercial manufacturing site in Greenville, NC.

A robotic tray-loading system from ESS Technologies gently handles glass prefilled syringes.

Wilden’s new air-operated double-diaphragm pumps can be installed in vertical or horizontal positions with various inlet and discharge options.

Collaborative robots work beside laboratory employees to improve efficiency in pharmaceutical research and quality control labs.

Improving the manufacturing of gene therapy vectors will be crucial to making advanced treatments accessible to more patients who need them, agreed panelists at the 2018 Galien Forum.

Experts believe that the contract development and manufacturing organization market will reach $17.38 billion by 2022, with disruptive business models using Industrial Internet of Things (IIot) and single-use technologies proving more profitable and efficient in the long term.

GE Healthcare will collaborate with Wego Pharmaceutical in China for local production and supply of GE Healthcare’s Fortem single-use consumables.

The new program will provide cell and gene therapy companies a more efficient way to ensure quality compliance across collection center networks and to minimize quality system audit burden on these centers.