Manufacturing and Production

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Manufacturing facility news in brief

September 14, 2009 Manufacturing and Production BMS

Pharmafocus' round-up of manufacturing facility news includes plant disposals by BMS and Sanofi-Aventis, a new build for device company Haselmeier …

Lonza breaks ground on new cell therapy facility

September 14, 2009 Manufacturing and Production Lonza

Swiss contract manufacturer Lonza has broken ground a new manufacturing unit for cell-based therapies, located at the Tuas Biomedical Park …

Contract manufacturing news in brief

September 11, 2009 Manufacturing and Production

Newsflow in the contract manufacturing sector is picking up again as the summer draws to a close, with new agreements …

Blow for Irish pharma sector as Teva, Elan cut staff

September 7, 2009 Manufacturing and Production Elan, Teva, lilly

Ireland’s pharmaceutical sector suffered a double blow last week as two drugmakers opted to make staff redundant at manufacturing plants …

Novartis swine-flu jab effective in single dose

September 3, 2009 Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Novartis, h1n1

A study of Novartis' pandemic swine-flu jab shows it is potentially protective after just one dose, which could help eke …

JLL says it will fight Lonza’s Patheon bid

September 1, 2009 Manufacturing and Production JLL, Patheon

Lonza's attempt to buy Canadian contract manufacturer Patheon will not go unopposed by private equity group JLL, which has been …

Supply chain controls blamed for UK medicines shortage

August 27, 2009 Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development supply chain

Industry supply chain controls in the UK have overwhelmingly made medicines more difficult to source and have put patients risk, …

Venezuela restates threat to seize Pfizer plant

August 27, 2009 Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing Pfizer, South America

The wrangling over Pfizer's manufacturing facility in Venezuela is continuing, with a senior official reiterating a threat to seize control …

More evidence of tobacco’s role as drugmaking factory

August 27, 2009 Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development Biodesign Institute

Researchers have successfully engineered tobacco to synthesise the antigens for a vaccine against norovirus, providing further evidence that complex pharmaceuticals …

Perrigo plans ‘massive transformation’ of API production

August 26, 2009 Manufacturing and Production India, Perrigo

Pharmaceutical manufacturer Perrigo has taken a majority stake in Vedants Drugs and Fine Chemicals in a move that will shift …

Contract research news in brief

August 21, 2009 Manufacturing and Production CRO, Covance

Pharmafocus presents its periodic round-up of developments in the contract research sector, including updates from Covance, CenterWatch, Pharm-Olam and JSS …

$2bn deal will create pharma packaging giant

August 19, 2009 Manufacturing and Production Amcor, MA

Australian company Amcor looks set to join the healthcare packaging giants via a $2 billion deal to purchase the pharmaceutical, …

Pharma manufacturing news in brief

August 14, 2009 Manufacturing and Production Mylan

Pharmafocus' round-up of manufacturing news includes an all-clear for Mylan's Morgantown facility, GSK's flu vaccine plans and updates from the …

Patheon wins EMEA approval for Puerto Rico plant

August 13, 2009 Manufacturing and Production Patheon

Canadian contract manufacturer Patheon has been cleared to import solid-dose products from its plant in Manati, Puerto Rico, into Europe …

Green manufacturing from the deep blue sea

August 12, 2009 Manufacturing and Production Ingenza

UK researchers have embarked on a project to analyse marine microorganisms for enzymes that could be used to manufacture chiral …

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