Outsourcing

With the $252-million acquisition of contract development, manufacturing, and testing organization Avista Pharma Solutions, Cambrex will enter the market for early stage small-molecule development and testing services.

As biopharma companies rapidly change their focus, they may lack the laboratory space, instrumentation, and the scientific knowledge to support biologics research.

Ardena has moved into its expanded headquarters, located in Gent, Belgium, as a result of continued growth.

The expansion adds new capabilities and enhances existing service offerings for both oral and parenteral dosage forms.

The growth in adoption of single-use systems for commercial manufacturing will be dramatic in coming years.

Survey results and record attendance show positive signs for various bio/pharma regions.

The company will complete an expansion of its secondary packaging capabilities at its Ravensburg, Germany site by 2020.

Cambrex will create a new center of excellence for API process development and clinical supply at its High Point, NC facility and expand its API manufacturing facility in Italy.

Clovis Oncology and Lonza celebrated the grand opening of a dedicated production train at Lonza’s Visp, Switzerland site for manufacturing Rubraca (rucaparib).

Luxembourg-based pharmaceutical group, C2 Pharma (formerly known as Centroflora CMS) successfully validated the manufacturing process for two APIs-digoxin and digoxin micron.

Rentschler Fill Solutions received a certificate of GMP compliance from the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety for its new aseptic fill/finish facility.

Industry experts discuss the formulation and development issues that should be considered when addressing scale up from small-scale batches to commercial production.

Vetter chose a winner from four teams that worked for three months to develop ideas for applying digital technology to injectable pharmaceuticals.

The sterile-manufacturing contract development manufacturing organization is approved by FDA for viral vector manufacturing fill/finish processing at its biologics facility in Scotland, UK.

BeiGene is set to build late-stage clinical and commercial production capacity for cancer monoclonal antibodies with GE Healthcare’s KUBio, the prefabricated biopharma facility based on single-use technologies.

Evonik completed a EUR 36 million expansion of its contract-manufacturing capabilities for API and advanced intermediates in the United States and Germany.

The $425-million acquisition adds formulation development and finished dosage manufacturing capabilities to Cambrex’s existing global API manufacturing network.

Sharing know-how can help resolve common bio/pharma technical challenges.

Partnerships, mergers, and new services indicate that biologics are continuing to influence CMOs’ and CDMOs’ decisions to expand their biopharmaceutical services.

Alcami and the University of North Carolina Wilmington received a grant from the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals to prepare students for careers in pharmaceutical sciences.

The acquisition strengthens Nelson Labs’ outsourced testing capabilities for the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.

The company is certified as a manufacturer of pressure vessels and components for use in China.

An expansion of laboratory facilities in Geneva, Switzerland expands SGS services for high-order structure analysis.

The new Testa Center in Uppsala, Sweden is a collaborative test bed offering biotechnology equipment from GE Healthcare for process development.

Drug product approval from FDA follows previous approvals from European and Japanese authorities.