Manufacturing

WuXi Biologics will invest $60 Million to establish a biologics production facility in Massachusetts.

The India Expo Mart in Delhi will host CPhI and P-MEC India with expected attendance of 50,000.

Siemens will become a preferred supplier for Sartorius Stedim Biotech’s automation solutions, and SSB will create a globally standardized automation platform for its biopharmaceutical manufacturing systems.

ABB’s modeling software, Shop Floor Integration V2.0, allows engineers to validate the connection of existing pharmaceutical manufacturing equipment with Werum’s PAS-X manufacturing execution system in a simulation prior to running it live.

The company will provide the first FlexFactory manufacturing platform for cell therapy manufacturing.

Under the contract, AMRI will focus on the development and manufacture of APIs and drug product for Phase I clinical studies.

Flow imaging microscopy can be used to identify particulates and their sources.

PDA reviews an industry survey of concerns and best practices regarding the EU GMP’s required PUPSIT test for filters used in sterile filtration.

Ross Charles’ 300-gallon process vessel is suitable for 5-psi internal pressure at 300 °F and is agitated by a disperser blade driven to 1150 rpm by a 75HP explosion-proof motor.

The ÄKTA pilot 600 from GE Healthcare is a lightweight bench-top chromatography system suited to streamline both GMP and non-GMP everyday operations.

Endress+Hauser’s Field Xpert SMT70 is a tablet PC suited for commissioning and maintaining field instruments in hazardous and non-hazardous locations.

Leistritz has added a continuous twin screw extrusion system that continuously mixes and conditions gel-mass formulations designed to replace previous upstream batch processing methodologies.

By minding knowledge gaps, bio/pharma companies can avoid development pitfalls.

From separation systems to reactor technology, new tools are increasing the feasibility of continuous API production.

TxCell announces manufacturing agreement with Lonza for its HLA-A2 CAR-Treg cellular product.

Bosch Packaging Technology will introduce its newest R&D device for continuous oral solid dosage production at Achema 2018.

Rentschler Fill Solutions and Ultragenyx announce fill and finish agreement for the US commercial supply of Mepsevii.

Coperion will be presenting a new, innovative pneumatic conveying process for plastic pellets that consumes up to 35% less power and generates up to 98% less dust at Achema 2018. Fluidlift ecoblue enables manufacturers of plastic granulates to increase product quality while reducing specific power consumption.

The UK’s University of Sheffield opened a new chemical engineering teaching plant for continuous oral solid-dosage pharmaceuticals using GEA’s multipurpose platform.

Bosch Packaging Technology’s capsule filling machine for small batches of hard capsules uses a fully automated, washable containment process.

The updated version of Schubert-Pharma’s Flowmodul unit for packing units into flowpacks features cleanability.

Bosch Packaging Technology will present its new modular freeze dryer at Achema 2018.

GE Healthcare and the Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM) will support scale-up efforts by DiscGenics for a new cell therapy intended to treat back pain.

This marks the third FDA approval for the company’s second biomanufacturing plant in Incheon, Korea.

The European Commission has approved Zessly (infliximab), a biosimilar to Johnson & Johnson’s blockbuster Remicade (infliximab).

Glatt Ingenieurtechnik has added compact continuous agglomeration equipment and new control systems to its "modular plant engineering" portfolio.

Optima will also display the freeze dryer CS and the sterility test isolator STISO at the show.

The gene therapy company is expected to invest $55 million in a new manufacturing facility that will produce therapies for rare neurological genetic diseases.

The sterility test isolator (STISO) for testing aseptically filled drug products and for testing toxic aseptic drugs (STISOtox) from Metall+Plastic, a subsidiary of Optima, are modular and ergonomically designed.

GEA and Perceptive Engineering will collaborate to promote and deploy multivariate monitoring and advanced process control (APC) solutions for batch and continuous pharmaceutical process units.