Manufacturing

Pharmaceutical companies and contract service providers adapt strategies and capabilities to reduce costs and accelerate drug-development timelines.

A two-day workshop on the "science behind pharmaceutical stability" was held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) on Oct. 21-22, 2011 in Washington, DC.

The government of Turkey is drawing up a program in coordination with the pharmaceutical industry to create ways to make the country a regional production center for pharmaceuticals serving Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East.

This article introduces"mean kinetic relative humidity" for evaluating the impact of humidity variability.

Overt and covert packaging technologies evolve to authenticate drugs and fight counterfeits.

The US Pharmacopeia's revised General Chapters on elemental impurity limits and testing procedures are set to take effect in December 2012.

In this paper, the authors review the various analytical methods that can enable use of PAT.

New systems that combine Raman spectroscopy with automated imaging support the efficient gathering of such data, including information concerning size and shape distributions for individual components within a formulation.

This article focuses on the growing need for effective data management in the life sciences industry-especially among smaller pharmaceutical manufacturers.

Developing analytical methods and performing related testing is crucial for ensuring the quality of a pharmaceutical product.

Critical process parameters (CPPs) and their associated process controls are crucial to drug development and process validation and to the evaluation of every manufacturing unit operation.

Patheon will acquire softgel-specialist company Banner Pharmacaps, based in North Carolina in the US, for $255 million

On Oct. 22, 2012, a consortium in France announced the establishment of Europe's first ever industrial manufacturing facility dedicated to the large-scale production of novel, advanced cell-based therapy medicinal products.

PharmTech's monthly newsletter, Equipment and Processing Report, reviews the Editor's Picks for the October 2012 edition from UFP Technologies and Mettler Toledo.

Strategic management of intelligent devices is important in any processing field, and a new standards committee at the International Society of Automation aims to provide direction so that manufacturers can better utilize the devices' capabilities.

Consider these tools and strategies for optimizing the manufacturing process.

Takeda's US subsidiary, Takeda America Holdings, has agreed to acquire the vaccine specialist company LigoCyte Pharmaceuticals for an upfront payment of $60 million in a move intended to bolster and expand the company's vaccine business.

PharmTech spoke with industry experts about the challenges of implementing disposable chromatography systems.

IQ Consortium representatives explore and define common industry approaches and practices for applying GMPs in early development.

The authors describe how traditional approaches to analytical method and validation may benefit from alignment with quality-by-design concepts.

Recent research on elucidating the structure and sequence of proteins involves examining the effect of microgravity on protein crystallization and a computational model for protein elucidation.

Foreign firms struggle against stricter patent laws, but all is not lost.

Real-time experimentation may offer continuous process improvement.

Today's pharmaceutical companies are striving to reduce costs and maximize efficiencies, and must make decisions on the best way to deploy their limited resources.

Only the strong survive when it comes to pharmaceutical packaging and shipping.