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The CPHI Annual Report is a comprehensive and critically important publication that analyses key trends and innovations forecast by our panel of world class experts, as well as the CPHI Pharma Industry Rankings (an annual executive survey of pharma pro...

Welcome to Week Two of the Festival of Pharma! In this podcast, Informa Markets Senior Content Producer, Diana Castro Sandoval, and Pharma Editor, Gareth Carpenter, reveal what's coming up on Day Six including a must-see keynote address from former FDA...

The CPHI Festival of Pharma is well underway! Tune into this podcast in which Informa Markets Head of Pharma Content, Tara Dougal, and Pharma Editor, Gareth Carpenter review some of the highlights of the first few days as well as a preview of what's co...

Leading German manufacturer of primary packaging glass vials for the pharmaceutical industry joins the DWK Life Sciences group

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DWK Life Sciences has announced a primary packaging supply chain agreement with the VMIC to support vaccine development. The company will be supplying borosilicate pharmaceutical glass vials.

Evive’s F-627 candidate has shown promising results after several phase three clinical trials, CEO Liu Jubo says

Amgen’s second best-seller Neulasta, whose patent expired five years ago, generated US$3.2 billion of sales in 2019

As one of the fastest-growing economies in the Middle East region, Qatar is home to several industries that catalyze change and supply raw material for diverse products that form a major part of Qatar’s exports, thereby augmenting the nation’s economic...

Join us this Friday for the opening of our new formulation and sterile fill-finish facility with a digital open house from 1:00 to 2:00 pm EDT. Join key members of Alcami's operational and commercial leadership teams to learn about our newest faci...

Sign-up below to be part of an open house with key members of Alcami's operational and commercial leadership teams for sterile fill-finish manufacturing services on October 9. 

Recipharm, a leading contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO) has entered into an agreement with Arcturus Therapeutics, a leading U.S. based clinical-stage messenger RNA medicines company focused on the development of infectious disea...

The two suites, established with VMIC equipment and operated by Oxford Biomedica, will be operating at 1000-L scale.

SG ITC (Integrated Tip Cap), the twist-off closure of Stevanato Group, is an established and especially user-friendly system solution for Luer Lock syringes, which will now be included in Gerresheimer program.

Flexible support system simplifies and secures tubing paths for biopharmaceutical manufacturers.

MILESAX® was granted because of the recognized innovation and uniqueness of the composition, with muscle relaxant and anti-inflammatory activity.

How Stress affects mental health

"Exploring life to improve living" is the title of the webinar that Gnosis by Lesaffre has organized to reveal the fully integrated brand to everyone.

BIA Separations will be Sartorius's center of excellence for purification of cell and gene therapeutics.

Immunity is a big concern for everyone for years, but today, it is one of the most important health concerns for consumers. This structural trend on immunity results in growth of products launched with an immune health claim1.

The new number of Quatrefolic® Science UP, dedicated to fertility and the critical role of folate and homocysteine in the early stages of human reproduction, has been just released.

Scancell’s DNA vaccine could provide long-lasting immunity against COVID-19 by generating protection against this and new strains of coronavirus.

The CPHI Festival of Pharma has finally opened up! Tune into this podcast in which Informa Markets Head of Pharma Content, Tara Dougal, and Pharma Editor, Gareth Carpenter outline the rich content that is available to registrants on the first day of th...

Ingredients are the lifeblood of the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries. They connect today’s cutting-edge medicine and consumer products makers with their origins in the chemicals sector of the late nineteenth century. While ingredients play ...

Catalent, the leading global provider of advanced delivery technologies, development, and manufacturing solutions for drugs, biologics, cell and gene therapies, and consumer health products, today announced the launch of its new OneXpress™ service for ...

Catalent, the leading global provider of advanced delivery technologies, development, and manufacturing solutions for drugs, biologics, gene therapies, and consumer health products, today announced it is to invest $9 million in a new clinical supply fa...

Catalent today welcomed the news from Nocion Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company developing novel small molecule charged sodium channel blockers, that its first patient has been dosed with NOC-100, an inhaled formula of its NTX-1175 small m...

Catalent today announced that it is investing $130 million to add five additional Phase 3 through commercial-scale manufacturing suites to its gene therapy campus in Harmans, Maryland.

SGD Pharma has expanded its ready-to-use (RTU) molded glass vial range to introduce a market-first 50ml volume option in tray developed at introduce a market-first 50ml volume option in tray developed at industrial scale by a molded glass manufact...

As a provider of reference materials for a broad range of scientific industries, many of LGC Standards’ products are manufactured according to the International Organisation for Standardisation’s accreditation scheme for reference material providers...

Quay Pharma has underlined its position as a major player in the global pharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing (CDMO) sector with the creation of a US subsidiary.

9/10/2020  - Bantec Sanitizing has engaged Chem Flowtronics to produce sanitizer blending machines for national distribution.

2/18/2019 - Chem Flowtronics signs agreement with Novartis providing exclusive manufacturing rights for a propriet...

ZIM Laboratories Limited (ZIM) announced that it has filed the regulatory dossier for approval of Rizatriptan orally dissolving film in Europe.Rizatriptan orally dissolving film is a product developed using our Thinoral® technology which yields instant...

Portuguese pharma company, BIAL, and global contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), Recipharm, have expanded a long-term agreement for the global manufacturing and supply of BIAL’s proprietary molecule opicapone.

Cleveland site to manufacture Xellia's aseptic injectables for the US market

Copenhagen, Denmark, 26 March 2020 - Xellia Pharmaceuticals (‘Xellia’), a specialty pharmaceutical company focusing on providing important anti-infective treatments a...

Ahead of the world’s largest ever virtual pharma expo – the CPHI Festival of Pharma – Informa Markets spoke with Ramesh Subramanian, Chief Commercial Officer at GVK BIO on how they are preparing for the event.

COVID-19 has significantly disrupted the global supply chain and directly affected companies involved in the storage of goods. The pandemic has also led to several major developments in the warehousing sector. This article looks at some of these develo...

Georgia is a rapidly developing country with a unique location at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and Western Asia and a population of 3.71 million. COREX Logistics has been working in Georgia since 2016 — one of our state-of-the-art warehouses is loc...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on all aspects of the logistics market. Air transportation of clinical supplies is no exception. While the coronavirus outbreak created an additional demand for vital medical supplies to be shipped ...

For a drug to be imported into the Russian Federation, it must first go through clinical trials and be authorized by the Ministry of Health (MoH). Non-authorized drugs may only be imported under certain prescribed conditions according to the laws of th...

COREX Academy was delighted to host its first international business training event on 26 June, 2020 in Moscow. Over 80 guests from leading pharmaceutical companies and CROs attended the webinar on the very topical subject of “Remote Management".&...

Warminster, PA – October 28 – SP Industries, Inc. (“SP”), a leading designer and manufacturer of state-of-the-art laboratory equipment, pharmaceutical fill-finish manufacturing solutions, laboratory supplies and glassware, announced today that it h...

Piramal Pharma Solutions News 

The Alliance will jointly design and market products and services related to medical devices, cosmetics and food supplementsThe Alliance will be a leader in the Healthcare Consulting sector in this area. 

Mallinckrodt Agrees to Sell BioVectra Inc. to H.I.G. Capital for $250 Million— Transaction continues to advance Mallinckrodt’s strategic focus on branded biopharmaceuticals by monetizing a non-core business —— H.I.G. Capital to support BioVectra leader...

Azierta and CPQ ingenieros have decided to sign a strategic alliance in order to combine the experience and knowledge of both firms. In this way, they will have a joint offer at a consultancy level for the design of installations in pharmaceu...

BioVectra Inc., a global Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO), today announced new investments in its large-scale synthetic chemistry and analytical development capabilities. To continue serving its client’s cGMP manufacturing nee...

Sterling Pharma Solutions has acquired the Alcami facility in Germantown, Wisconsin, US.  

Swedish life science company, Sobrera Pharma, and global contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), Recipharm, have entered into an agreement for the formulation development and manufacturing of SO-001, a new oral treatment for Alcohol...

Pharmaceutical Technologies | Corning Incorporated | May 28, 2020Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) and Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) today announced the execution of a long-term purchase and supply agreement for Corning Valor® Glass.

New manufacturing capacity will allow Corning to meet increased regional and global demand for high-quality glass tubing
Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) today announced a joint venture (JV) agreement with Bengbu Innovation Venture Capital Co. Ltd. ...

Pharmaceutical Technologies | Corning Incorporated | June 09, 2020Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) today announced it will receive $204 million from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the Office of the Assistant...

Pharmaceutical Technologies | Corning Incorporated | October 25, 2019Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) today announced that a leading pharmaceutical manufacturer has received FDA approval of Corning Valor® Glass for use as a primary package for a market...

The Informa Markets team recently spoke with Tom Ongena, sales director Europe at Sirio Europe about his expectations for the first ever CPHI Festival of Pharma, what he is seeing in the industry and how the CDMO is approaching the virtual event.

Hydroxypropyl Betadex can improve the physicochemical properties of β - carotene

Sterling has launched its multi-million-pound Material Science Centre at its headquarters in Dudley, Northumberland, UK.

Betadex sulfobutyl ether sodium can play a good role in medicine

Betadex Sulfobutyl Ether Sodium promotes the development of new drug voriconazole eye drops

Carboxymethyl beta cyclodextrin sodium salt

Hovione announced the signing of a partnership agreement with Ligand to significantly ramp up the production output of Captisol®

Hovione announced today the appointment of Dr. Jean-Luc Herbeaux as Chief Operating Officer (COO), effective May 1st, 2020.

Inspection conducted remotely using video-conferencing and an online private document sharing platform.

Hugh Purity New England's solution can utilize other vendors' components and can be implemented directly into any process.

Up to 500 doses of vaccine to be placed on a single wafer-thin and stored for extended periods of time.

Abdi İbrahim, Turkey’s leading pharmaceutical company having built the largest biotechnological manufacturing facility of the country, entered a strategic partnership with the Icelandic pharmaceutical company Alvotech to manufacture and launch biot...

Abdi İbrahim, operating in the pharmaceuticals industry for the last 108 years, and the consecutive market leader in the last 18, took part in a Swiss joint venture that acquired OM Pharma, a 83-year pharma company based in Switzerland, one of the l...

The new centre will allow the company to improve efficiencies and reduce overall manufacturing time.

Novel therapy developed by Australian biotech company, Ena Respiratory, shown to significantly reduce COVID-19 virus levels in the nose and throat.

Survey results reveal 84% of the industry is actively searching for new partners.

Evonik launches RESOMER® Precise platform of custom functional excipients to precisely control the release profile of parenteral drug products

With our innovative enzymatic platform, we've been changing the game for sustainable antibiotics and statins production, step by step.

Centrient achieves PNEC compliance for SSPs

Patients suffering from chronic and acute pain disorders will benefit from a convenient, discreet, and easy-to-use device delivering a novel alternative to opioid-based pain management.

New chemistry and engineering technology center highlights the application of micropacked bed technology in continuous manufacturing

To master logistic challenges even during the coronavirus crisis, va-Q-tec started a unique partnership with DSV and United Airlines. The cooperation ensures one of the most important transport routes for the regular transport of blood plasma despite l...

Our New Headquarters located at Dr.-Robert-Pfleger-Strasse in Bamberg, Germany

Sustainability matters a great deal to everyone at Centrient Pharmaceuticals, it is core to our mission and essential in shaping our authentic and purposeful culture. Our promise of Sustainability means that we not only ‘do what we say’, but also we ar...

Doubling our API capacity to meet the growing demand

Centrient Pharmaceuticals Receives Gold Sustainability Rating from EcoVadis

With a turnover of 441 million Euro in 2019 and 2,000 employees in Italy and abroad, Marchesini Group is a flagship of the Packaging Valley in Emilia Romagna and one of the top four worldwide manufacturers of automatic pharmaceutical and cosmetic packa...

New scientific research, published in Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, highlights the benefits of Bioiberica’s native (undenatured) type II collagen (b-2Cool®) in combination with other key ingredients for joint health: chondroitin sulphate, glucosamin...

Ingredients are the lifeblood of the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries. They connect today’s cutting-edge medicine and consumer products makers with their origins in the chemicals sector of the late nineteenth century. While ingredients...

Korean pharmaceutical firm HK inno.N Corp. said on Friday that its gastroesophageal reflux disease drug K-CAB has been approved by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, marking the first time for the company to launch an independently-developed novel d...

Athlone, Ireland - 15 September 2020 –  Almac Sciences, a member of Almac Group, has announced the expansion of its existing suite of analytical solutions to include biologics testing.

Appearing in the September 2020 edition of Tablets & Capsules, this article summarizes a method for rapid and accurate determination of API concentration in the fill of soft gelatin capsules while little or no sample preparation. Applying chemometric m...

Xellia Pharmaceuticals Opens New Commercial Office in Dubai

Samyang Biopharm USA, Inc. (https://us.samyangbiopharm.com) a global biotech subsidiary of the Samyang Pharmaceuticals Corp. (https://samyangbiopharm.com/eng), announced today that the company has entered into a worldwide licensing agreement with CanCu...

Samyang Biopharm USA has licensed in Belgium’s Talix Therapeutics’ first-in-class immuno-oncology compound for global rights.

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New collaboration between Novartis and Africa Medical Supplies Platform to facilitate supply of COVID-19 related medicines. Novartis and the African Union (AU) through the Africa Medical Supplies Platform (AMSP) have announced a new collaboration ...

Sandoz Inc. announced the US market introduction of Daptomycin for injection 500 mg, an AP-rated generic version of Cubicin® (daptomycin)*, for the treatment of adult patients with complicated skin and skin structure infections (cSSSI) caused by Gram-p...

Bushu Pharma – a leading CDMO in Japan – is investing USD100 million over the next five years to expand its footprint and services, helping the company better respond to the requirements of its customers.

Daewoong Pharmaceutical has signed a deal worth $50 million to supply Mexico’s Moksha8 with gastric acid blocker Fexuprazan. Given the local authorities' approval plan, Moksha8 aims to launch Fexuprazan in the second half of 2022.

- Selected as a Poster of Distinction for presentation during Digestive Disease Week 2020
- Proved its efficacy with outstanding inhibition of gastric acid secretion and safety
- Proactively targeting the anti-acid secretion agent market valu...

On the August 14th, Daewoong signed an export contract with EMS in Brazil for the P-CAB-affiliated gastric secretion inhibitor Fexuprazan. The contract amount is $72.58 million. EMS will be responsible for the local approval of Fexuprazan in Brazil.

- Cooperative relations related to global joint research for COVID-19 drug Camostat (Daewoong Brand: Foistar)
- Daewoong’s Foistar enters phase 2 clinical trials... Scheduled to proceed to phase 3 clinical trials by end of year

An investigator-initiated Phase 2 clinical trial of Daewoong Pharm’s COVID-19 drug candidate has been kicked off at several health centers in Mexico, including Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán. The sponsor-invest...

Ypsomed has developed the world’s first zero carbon emission prefilled autoinjector. The YpsoMate Zero is based on the proven YpsoMate autoinjector platform that offers convenient handling and patient safety. The new YpsoMate Zero uses alterna...

In February 2020, Recipharm acquired Consort Medical plc, which included Bespak. The move was designed to strengthen Recipharm’s position as a leading inhalation company and one of the largest CDMOs in the world.

CycloLab, being involved in the fight, manufactures the critical excipient: sulfobutyl-ether-BCD (SBECD, Dexolve™) that enables Remdesivir to work. The unexpected and sudden outbreak along with the quick spread of the coronavirus-disease and rapid incr...

The companies will commercialize six new biosimilar candidates addressing multiple therapeutic areas.

Please find company brochure attached that includes the ultra pure specification

Terumo Corporation (TSE: 4543) announced that its affiliate company Terumo Yamaguchi D&D Corporation has received Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) certification from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in regards to a bio...

- Contributions include USD 1 million to the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for WHO -
As the world joins together to support healthcare workers and others on the front lines providing critical care to patie...

Terumo Corporation (TSE: 4543) today announced that a new osteoporosis medication, Teribone
Asahi Kasei Pharma has been providing lyophilized vial formulation Teribone

Expanded CRO services to support biotechs and mid-sized pharma companies across trials in more than 40 countries.

The targeted removal of one particular bacterial species from the skin microbiome, while preserving the beneficial ones, represents a new way to treat atopic dermatitis.

The second in a quarterly series of blog posts about responsible supply chain management from the PSCI Chair, Caroline O'Brien

The latest Pope Benchtop Nutsche Filter Dryers are now available for quick delivery.

Catalent to manufacture clinical batches of T-knife's platform process for TCR-based cell therapy at its site in Gosselies, Belgium, for European trials in 2021.

Clients set to benefit immediately through "higher yields" and "improved potent handling".

Novel, plasmid-free manufacturing system reduces the cost of goods and improves AAV quality to enable development of safer gene therapies.

Several ongoing development programs are dedicated to the manufacturing of orphan drugs intended for both US and European patients. Skyepharma team is proud to work on orphan drugs development projects.

R&D : Mechanical resistance of pharmaceutical press coated tablets (tab-in-tab): characterization and link with material and process parameters.

Vildagliptin & Metformin(50+850 mg), (50+1000 mg) Film Coated Tablets Reference Product: Eucreas® / Novartis 

Ertapenem 1gPowder for concentrate for solution for infusion
Reference Product: Invanz® / MSD

Isavuconazole 200mg Powder for concentrate for solution for infusion
Reference Product: Cresemba® / Basilea Pharmaceutica (Pfizer)

Brivaracetam 10mg/ml (5ml Vial) Solution for Injection/Infusion
Reference Product: Briviact® / UCB

Lacosamide 10mg/ml (20ml Vial)Solution for Infusion
Reference Product: Vimpat® / UCB

We’re kicking off the opening of our new, 32,000 sq. ft formulation and sterile fill-fill finish facility with a digital open house on October 9 from 1:00-2:00 pm EDT. We have a range of technical experts as our speakers including Maria Lacou...

This month we launch our multi-million-pound Material Science Centre, home to our Solid State specialists, as well as our new milling, micronisation and solid state chemistry services. Here, the team introduce themselves and share a little more ab...