Manufacturing

A new Cytiva FlexFactory platform will be installed at Taiyo Pharma Tech’s site in Osaka, Japan.

Fujifilm’s new cell culture media manufacturing facility in the Netherlands has officially opened.

The additions to Crown Bioscience’s UK facility will increase and expand the company’s current in-vivo offering.

Fujifilm’s center adds local support in Suzhou, China for cell culture media optimization.

Moderna’s agreement with the UK government includes 29 million COVID-19 vaccine doses for delivery in 2022 and 31 million doses for delivery in 2023.

High price tags threaten to block patient access to potentially life-saving cures and treatments.

Bio/pharmaceutical manufacturing harnesses the benefits of digital transformation.

Polpharma implemented digital technologies, including a digital twin of operations.

Isolators move into smaller-volume processes, including cell and gene therapy manufacturing.

Simple, inexpensive real-time analytics are urgently needed for high value products.

Particle analysis is a critical component of pharmaceutical development, providing assurances of the quality and performance of the final dosage form.

Lean delivery offers a promising solution to supply and manufacturing bottlenecks by integrating project teams early on and widening the team’s field of view.

Sartorius is investing €100 million (US$113 million) between 2021 and 2025 to expand capacities for production, innovation, and storage at its French facilities in Aubagne, Cergy, and Lourdes.

Sartorius will invest approximately €270 million (US$305 million) to expand its biopharmaceutical manufacturing activities in South Korea’s biopharm hub.

Partnerships formed during the COVID-19 pandemic have provided a platform for change in assay development and transfers that should continue in the future.

The GEA kytero combines the high performance of larger GEA stainless-steel pharmaceutical centrifuges with the benefits offered by disposable components.

Relative to prior models, the Thermo Scientific Orbitrap Exploris MX mass detector provides reduced downtime and maintenance, superior data quality, and seamless method transfers.

ROSS VersaMix Multi-Shaft Mixers provide fast and efficient large-scale powder dispersion.

Anritsu's 10-Lane Capsule Checkweigher can inspect up to 75,000 capsules per hour.

CordenPharma will build a clinical trial development facility for manufacture of oral solid dosage drug products at its Plankstadt facility near Heidelberg, Germany.

Analytical methods need a boost to ensure quality control for cell and gene therapies.

Novozymes and Novo Nordisk Pharmatech are teaming up to develop best-in-class technical enzymes to support biopharmaceutical production processes.

BeiGene has acquired property in Hopewell, NJ to build a new manufacturing site and clinical R&D center for advanced new medicines.

Samsung Biologics, GreenLight Biosciences, and Environmental Impact Acquisition Corp. have partnered to advance GreenLight’s mRNA COVID-19 vaccine candidate.

The companies are testing their existing vaccines against the new variant of concern and are pursuing variant-specific versions.

The Comirnaty vaccine received a positive opinion from the EMA’s CHMP for children five to under 12 years of age.

Speed to market, flexibility, and digitalization are important topics in biopharmaceutical manufacturing.

Jordi Serrat, Product & Technology Director, Azbil Telstar talks about the role of disruptive and digital technologies in aseptic processing.

Global supply chain experts examine implications of the DSCSA as well as topical considerations around the EU's FMD in this serialization video series ft. manufacturing, packaging, software, and regulatory experts.

Lonza is expanding its microbial development capabilities at its Visp, Switzerland, site to support clinical and commercial drug development programs.