Chris Newmarker

Legacy Pharmaceutical Packaging (Earth City, Mo.) announced this month that it has purchased three high-speed blistering and cartoning lines from McKesson RxPak’s production facility in Memphis, Tenn. Financial terms of the deal were undisclosed. The infrastructure acquisition — which includes serialization and aggregation capabilities — nearly doubles Legacy’s total blister production capacity, which is presently…

Equipment calibration is one of the primary processes used to maintain instrument accuracy in the pharmaceutical industry. Steve Yemm, BioData Pharmaceutical companies operate within a highly regulated sector and are expected to deliver the highest standards of quality and safety throughout the drug development process by regulatory bodies such as the FDA in the U.S.…

The coronavirus pandemic has cast a spotlight on U.S. reliance on pharmaceuticals made in China, with the Trump administration reportedly considering actions to increase demand for American-made drugs and medical products. The executive order in coming days would likely close loopholes that allow the federal government to buy foreign-made pharmaceutics and medical devices, The New…

Exercising greater process control and delivering improved yields are constant challenges for bioprocessing operations. Here’s how mass flow controllers help. Joe Sipka, Brooks Instrument The mass flow controller (MFC) is commonly used in many bioprocessing systems to manage the flow of different gases into bioreactor chambers. Intelligent MFC technology with digital-based flow-control capabilities can help…

ACG Group (Mumbai) this week rolled out what it described as a comprehensive portfolio of pharmaceutical production, inspection and packaging equipment. The portfolio draws on equipment technology from two of the company’s four business units: ACG Engineering and ACG Inspection. The machines — ranging from tablet presses to blister and carton packing equipment to serialization…