Equipment and Materials

Purdue University, Eli Lilly and Co., and Merck & Co. have launched the Young Institute Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Consortium, a collaborative effort to pioneer advances in making medicines. Operating within Purdue’s William D. and Sherry L. Young Institute for Advanced Manufacturing of Pharmaceuticals, consortium partners will focus on advancing pharmaceutical manufacturing, according to a Jan. 17 news…

Press release: Southampton, PA – NewAge Industries, Inc., parent company of AdvantaPure™ and NewAge Performance Products, a global leader in fluid transfer systems solutions for the biopharma and industrial markets, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mary Marcus to the position of CEO. “Since her arrival in 2008, Mary has been a vital part…

Novavax announced today that it signed a definitive agreement to sell a European manufacturing plant to Novo Nordisk for $200 million. The agreement centers around the company’s facility in Bohumil, Czech Republic, about 25 miles outside of Prague. It includes a transfer of assets, including a 150,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art recombinant protein manufacturing facility. That includes support…

A maker of pharma manufacturing workstations says wearable biometric ID products are solving a security and efficiency challenge. Traditionally, pharmaceutical manufacturers have used a complex patchwork of access points, workstations, and tools, according to Fremont, California–based Arista Corp. Think badges, passwords and more, with the potential for someone other than the intended operator to gain…

Roche recently announced it opened its latest Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED) Center in Basel Switzerland. The new facility is equipped with cutting-edge technologies and houses around 1,000 laboratory and office workspaces, according to the company. It is located at the company’s global headquarters and brings together teams of scientists and researchers to accelerate…

Eugia Pharma Specialties’ manufacturing hub in India has received an FDA warning letter based on inspections of its facility. The new warning letter is tied to previous warnings about the company’s Unit III Formulation manufacturing facility. The unit makes terminally sterilized products. Eugia’s Hyderabad, India-based facility received an official action indicated (OAI) status notice in…

Lotte Biologics and Merck recently signed a strategic partnership deal for biopharmaceutical manufacturing and process development. Through the agreement, Merck and Lotte Biologics will ensure the supply of essential raw materials and solutions for biopharmaceutical development and production, establish a stable supply chain system for raw materials, and develop a support system for the Bio…

Sen-Jam Pharmaceutical this week announced it is partnering with specialty pharmaceutical manufacturer KVK-Tech for formulation and chemistry, manufacturing and controls for anti-inflammatory injectables. The partnership is the third development, manufacturing, distribution and license agreement the pair have signed. The new partnership will further advance Sen-Jam’s first injectable anti-inflammatory therapeutic, SJP-100. Sen-Jam is developing an immunomodulator…

NEWS RELEASE: FREUDENBERG Launches New TPE Tubing for Biopharma Freudenberg, a global manufacturer of medical and pharmaceutical tubing, components, and devices, has introduced HelixFlex™, a high purity thermoplastic elastomer TPE tubing designed for use in biopharmaceutical fluid transfer applications. This is an expanded offering from Freudenberg, adding to its existing biopharma product portfolio of silicone…

Pharma packaging company Schott Pharma has unveiled plans to establish a new manufacturing facility in Wilson, North Carolina. Schott Pharma says the $371 million investment in the U.S. facility will create more than 400 jobs in the region and significantly expand the company’s presence in the U.S., an increasingly important strategic market for the German…