Contract Manufacturing

Catalent (NYSE:CTLT) has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase a dry-powder inhaler (DPI) capsule manufacturing and packaging facility from Acorda Therapeutics (NSDQ:ACOR). The acquisition will enable Catalent to establish a center of excellence for spray-dried dispersion for DPI capsule manufacturing. The transaction will also expand Catalent’s existing U.S.-based commercial-scale capabilities in metered-dose inhalers and nasal…

Halix has inked an agreement with AstraZeneca (LON:AZN) for large-scale drug substance manufacture of AZD1222, the adenovirus vector-based COVID-19 vaccine. The privately owned Dutch contract development and manufacturing organization will carry out the manufacturing services from its cGMP facility at the Leiden Bio Science Park.  The company has expanded the facility with two additional viral…

Lantheus Holdings (NASDAQ:LNTH) has agreed to sell its Puerto Rico-based radiopharmacy and positron emission tomography manufacturing facility to PharmaLogic Holdings Corp. PharmaLogic will pay $18 million to acquire the assets. The two companies also agreed to enter into a long-term supply agreement in which Lantheus will supply PharmaLogic with a range of products. The transaction…

Baxter (NYSE:BAX) is planning on spending $50 million to expand a sterile fill/finish manufacturing facility in Bloomington, Ind.  Baxter’s BioPharma Solutions business will manage the site, including a new 25,000-ft2 warehouse, a new filling line for flexible plastic containers and a high-speed automated syringe fill line.  Baxter hopes to wrap up manufacturing at the site in…

Transitioning from traditional batch to continuous manufacturing provides greater throughput, but it requires near real-time data analysis to proactively address potential problems. Continuous manufacturing (CM) is gaining popularity in the pharmaceutical industry because it represents an improved approach for small molecule drug product development compared to traditional batch manufacturing methods. CM allows for the production…

Vibalogics announced that it initiated the first phase of its planned $150 million investment in a virotherapy facility near Boston. The global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) has a three-year investment plan which includes building a 110,000 square-foot facility, with the $150 million covering redevelopment, equipment and personnel, according to a news release. Get the…

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE:TMO) and Innoforce have agreed to set up a new pharma services facility in Hangzhou, China for biologics and drug development and manufacturing.  Innoforce is a Hangzhou, China-based contract development and manufacturing company. The two companies expect to complete the facility in 2022.   The site will become part of Thermo Fisher’s…

Chemical company Avantor (NYSE:AVTR) recently said it expects to achieve sales growth of 5.4% in its third fiscal quarter of 2020, with biopharma and healthcare businesses driving quarterly revenues of $1.6 billion. Avantor offers a range of ultra-high-purity materials to biopharma companies. This year, the company also created a COVID-19 division to support virus detection, therapy…

As Pfizer and its German biotech partner BioNTech progress with a Phase 3 COVID-19 vaccine candidate, the companies are preparing for the prospect of delivering an approved vaccine at scale. Pfizer anticipates that it could produce up to 100 million doses in the remainder of 2020 and an additional 1.3 billion next year. The companies…

Aphena Pharma Solutions recently announced that it is spending $21 million to expand its Solid Dose Division in Cookeville, Tenn Aphena Pharma has purchased a 500,000 ft2 property, purpose-built for FDA manufacturing and packaging operations. Renovations have already started to turn the site into a state-of-the-art pharmaceutical packaging and distribution facility that will also serve…