pharma manufacturing news
Lonza buys Arch Chemicals for $1.2 billion
July 12, 2011Manufacturing and Production Lonza, pharma manufacturing news
Swiss fine chemical and contract manufacturing company Lonza has agreed to buy Arch Chemicals of the USA for $1.2 billion …
Cadila plant in India gets FDA warning
July 11, 2011Manufacturing and Production Cadila, FDA warning letter, pharma manufacturing news
Indian drugmaker Cadila Healthcare has been taken to task by the US FDA for quality violations at a new sterile …
Merck to close one facility, boosts another
July 5, 2011Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development Ireland, Merck & Co, pharma job cuts, pharma manufacturing news
Merck & Co continues to shake up its network of facilities, deciding to close a recently-acquired site in the USA …
Pfizer re-acquires Rouses Point from Akrimax
July 5, 2011Manufacturing and Production Pfizer, pharma manufacturing news
Pfizer has decided to buy back a manufacturing facility in Rouses Point, New York, from current owner Akrimax Pharmaceuticals, and …
US team make human ‘biocollagen’ in plants
July 5, 2011Manufacturing and Production collegen, cosmetic surgery, manufacturing and production news, pharma manufacturing news
A team of researchers in the USA have successfully synthesised human collagen in transgenic maize seeds, offering a potential alternative …
Grindeks opens API plant in Latvia
June 30, 2011Manufacturing and Production Grindeks, pharma manufacturing news
Latvian pharmaceutical company Grindeks has opened a new active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturing plant that it predicts will add around …
Shire gets green light for second Replagal facility
June 28, 2011Manufacturing and Production Replagal, Shire, Vpriv, pharma manufacturing news
The European Medicines Agency has approved a second manufacturing facility in the USA for Shire’s Fabry disease treatment Replagal. Shire’s …
GlaxoSmithKline fined $41m for manufacturing failings
June 28, 2011Manufacturing and Production GSK, pharma manufacturing news
GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to pay almost $41 million to dozens of US states in a lawsuit focusing on alleged substandard …
Pharma manufacturing news in brief
June 28, 2011Manufacturing and Production pharma manufacturing news
Abbott delays closure of Canadian facility, West Pharma starts a new build in China, plus updates from Vetter, Pharmadule and …
Pfizer sells Irish manufacturing facility to BioMarin
June 27, 2011Manufacturing and Production BioMarin, Ireland, Pfizer, pharma manufacturing news
Pfizer is selling its Irish manufacturing facility in Shanbally, Cork, to US biopharmaceutical company BioMarin for $48.5 million, creating up …
Novo Nordisk invests €134m in Danish facility
June 24, 2011Manufacturing and Production Novo Nordisk, biologics, pharma manufacturing news
Novo Nordisk plans to invest almost 1 billion Danish kroner (134 million euros) in a new biologics manufacturing facility at …
Pfizer project is quality-by-design milestone for FDA and EMA
June 21, 2011Manufacturing and Production EMA, FDA, Quality by Design, pharma manufacturing news
A pilot project set up earlier this year to encourage the adoption of quality-by-design in pharmaceutical manufacturing has passed its …
Novartis breaks ground on $500m Russian facility
June 21, 2011Manufacturing and Production Novartis, Russia, pharma manufacturing news
Novartis has started construction of its new pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in St. Petersburg, Russia.The company has broken ground on the …
Dr Reddy’s API plant in Mexico under FDA scrutiny
June 21, 2011Manufacturing and Production APIs, Dr Reddy's, FDA, GMP violations, pharma manufacturing news
Indian drugmaker Dr Reddy’s Laboratories has been sent a warning letter by the US FDA after a manufacturing facility in …
Smelly Risperdal adds to J&J’s recall tally
June 20, 2011Manufacturing and Production John Lechleiter, pharma manufacturing news, recalls
Johnson & Johnson continues to be plagued by product recalls, with the latest involving two lots of its schizophrenia drug …
