Facility Design and Engineering

The acquisition adds sterile manufacturing capability to the CDMO’s services, which include API formulation and manufacturing.

CordenPharma is investing €10 Million in a new line at its Plankstadt, Germany site.

Lonza introduces new modular complex that offers flexibility and individually tailored solutions to biomanufacturing challenges.

JLL ranks top 10 US life-sciences locations where scientists prefer to work and finds that location and workplace culture are key priorities.

Updated ISPE guidance offers risk assessment guidance to avoid cross contamination in multiproduct pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities.

The advantages of single-use systems become clear as they become more broadly implemented.

Biotech-based therapies and a move to single-use processes highlight recent industry changes.

Pharma company consolidation and outsourcing led to a de-emphasis of manufacturing and reduced investment in new technologies and facilities.

Takeda will build a new production facility at its existing Grange Castle site in Ireland.

Single-use systems demonstrate advantages over stainless-steel systems for biopharmaceutical manufacturing facilities.

FDA sent a warning letter to Pharmaceutic Labs, LLC for deficiencies in producing sterile drugs.

The new suite will be used to produce non-sterile dosage forms, such as metered dose inhalers and semisolid topical products, for clinical studies up to Phase II.

Flexicon’s flexible conduit ranges and hygienic fittings save space and time for power and data installations in pharmaceutical facilities.

Renewable energy can improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon dioxide emissions in pharmaceutical manufacturing processes.

The company made a €42 million investment in a new building at its Reinbek site to support the production of biopharmaceuticals.

The DME Facility Focus survey revealed best practices for coping with the challenges of aging facilities and implementing facility modernization.

The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) and its Facility of the Year Awards program announced its 2017 category award winners.

Laboratory tests can determine critical cleaning parameters for passivation treatments used to prevent rouge on GMP stainless-steel equipment.

Pump systems must be designed to meet the needs of specific processes, including preventing cross-contamination and damage due to shear forces.

The agency finds repeated CGMP violations at Porton Biopharma, Limited.

Vetter expanded visual inspection facilities and controlled-temperature storage at its Ravensburg Vetter West facility in Germany.

The medical cannabis producer has become compliant with EMA’s GMP standards.

The company opened a facility in Spain dedicated to the production of meglumine.

The companies entered a manufacturing agreement for the future commercial production of Lenti-D and LentiGlobin product candidates.

GlaxoSmithKline opened a new vaccines R&D center in Rockville, MD creating up to 200 new jobs.

Airlocks, gowning rooms, and transition spaces have different uses and should be considered separately in cGMP pharmaceutical facility design.

Avecia is adding drug substance capacity at its Milford, MA manufacturing site.

PDA’s first aging facilities survey suggests that post-approval changes play a major part in slowing pharmaceutical industry investment in new technology.

The new Boston laboratory offers advanced analytical testing services.

The new facility will focus on formulation development, drug product analytical development, and quality control.