Industry News

New manufacturing capacity at the Le Mans, France facility is being used to scale up antibody drug conjugates.

Eurofins Scientific will acquire ViraCor-IBT Laboratories for $255 million.

KBI Biopharma acquires Merck's microbial process development and manufacturing operations in Colorado.

MPI Research, inviCRO, and 3D Imaging open its new Translational Imaging Center in Michigan.

Ash Stevens receives the 2014 Lilly Global Supplier Award.

Pharmatek develops two new cGMP manufacturing suites for API-in-capsule productions.

The Azzur Group and BioSPEQ merger will increase consulting services and project resources within the life-sciences industry.

Allergy Therapeutics announced that its Worthing facility has received its Certificate of GMP Compliance following recent inspection by the MHRA.

Colorcon invests in significant expansion of its South Asia production facility.

Capsugel enters an agreement with Chiasma to increase manufacturing operations for octreotide, a treatment for acromegaly.

Sartorius Stedim Biotech's acquisition of AllPure Technologies will extends its portfolio for single-use bioprocessing.

INTERPEHX 2014 attendees tested their driving skills in a racecar simulator at the Federal Equipment booth.

CPhI report warns industry must actively drive process improvements to meet growing global demand for pharmaceuticals.

Spectrum Pharmaceuticals appoints Joseph Turgeon as president and COO.

Rommelag continues to supply blow-fill-seal machinery, with the brand name bottelpack.

Aastrom Biosciences will acquire Sanofi's CTRM business for $6.5 million.

Roquette America and Quadra Ingredients enter a partnership for the distribution of pharmaceutical products in Canada.

Thomson Reuters names three potential drugs anticipated to bring in over $1 billion in sales through 2019.

SI Group agrees to purchase certain Albemarle assets and products.

BASF builds a new plant for specialty amines in Ludwigshafen, Germany.

AMRI will close its DDS facility in Syracuse, NY.

Metrohm appoints Edward Colihan as president and CEO of Metrohm USA.

EMA sends its results on Roche investigation of pharmacovigilance non-compliance to the European Commission.

ThioBridge linker technology to attach different payloads to a range of antibodies

Ian Read, chairman and CEO of Pfizer, is elected chairman of the PhRMA.

Aesica's consortium project receives grant to investigate an industrial biotechnology process to improve the manufacturing of an API.

Fette Compacting America appoints Sean Scully as its new president.

The Advanced Tissue-engineered Human Ectypal Network Analyzer project team is developing realistic human organs for testing.

Molecular Profiles expands technology with GMP hot melt extrusion.

uniQure appoints a new COO and vice president, Medical affairs.