Supplier News

Vetter plans to invest approximately 300 million Euros during the course of five years to expand drug product manufacturing and logistic services in Germany; upgrades will include an improved RABS system for aseptic processing.

BASF completes sale of custom synthesis business and parts of its API business to Siegfried Holding.

Sterigenics International will triple West Memphis sterilization capacity with $15 million expansion.

The Grünenthal Group’s Tecnandina manufacturing plant in Ecuador has received the country’s first certification from the Regulatory Authority of Brazil.

Hovione will double its manufacturing capacity in New Jersey with an expanded facility and a commercial spray dryer designed to handle potent APIs.

The CDMO is striving to become a market leader in the development and manufacturing of antibody-drug conjugates.

Pharma development and manufacturing firm Patheon announces new tagline and logo.

Novo Nordisk will build a local manufacturing plant for FlexPen prefilled insulin delivery devices in Iran.

ReposiTrak signs agreement to pilot track and trace system in pharma.

IMA Active’s new tablet press machine, Prexima, is designed to deliver higher productivity and efficiency.

West Pharmaceutical Services and HealthPrize Technologies are collaborating on self-reporting and bar coding capabilities for injectable drug-delivery systems.

BASF is working together with top universities to develop a new supersonic spray-drying process for production of stable and soluble amorphous nanoparticles.

Supersonic spray-drying process yields stable and soluble amorphous nanoparticles.

EMD Millipore, the Life Science business of Merck KGaA, introduced expanded documentation and regulatory information for its Emprove portfolio of pharmaceutical raw materials, which include excipients, process chemicals, and APIs.

The Duran Group’s acquisition of Wheaton combine two brands of laboratory consumables.

GS1 standard tracks movement and status of goods, enabling better visibility, security and regulatory compliance.

Abenza acquired biopharmaceutical CDMO PacificGMP and expanded the company’s San Diego facility.

Source BioScience announced that it has acquired the next-generation sequencing services business from Oxford Gene Technology (OGT) in a move to expand its products and services portfolio.

SGS Life Science Services announced that its facility in Fairfield, NJ, has been upgraded to be Biosafety Level 2 (BSL-2) compliant, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines.

Under a global strategic partnership, Siemens will become GSK’s preferred supplier of manufacturing automation, focusing on process control, equipment control, and building management systems.

This agreement is a follow-on to an established collaboration between LobSor and Recipharm for the development and the manufacturing of Lecigon batches for the recently completed clinical trial.

The collaborative effort will be focused on fully humanized antibodies.

The platform, developed by Vectron Biosolutions, will be used for BI’s in-house pipeline and for its outsourcing clients.

Under the terms of the agreement, Sartorius Stedim Biotech will manufacture membrane adsorber technologies for GE, which will be marketed as part of GE’s ReadyToProcess product offerings.

Label Vision Systems (LVS) will be fully integrated into Microscan and the LVS name will become a brand within Microscan’s barcode label verification portfolio.

United Cargo signs global rental agreement with va-Q-tec for controlled transport of pharmaceuticals.

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments reports its EDX-7000/8000 spectrometers are compliant with electronic signature regulations.

Mayne Pharma plans to double oral-dose manufacturing space and expand contract services.

Recipharm will be responsible for the supply of the remaining clinical-trial material and ongoing future commercial supply of RHB-105, the lead drug candidate developed by RedHill for the treatment of Helicobacter pylori bacterial infection.

WuXi's Laboratory Testing Division will be the exclusive supplier of laboratory testing services for Hong Kong-based Lee's Pharm.