Agilent recently announced that it plans to double its manufacturing capacity of therapeutic nucleic acids. The $725 million investment will go toward the Santa Clara, California–based company’s Frederick, Colorado facility. The Colorado plant will get new Train C and D manufacturing lines. The facility already has a Train B manufacturing line, announced in 2020, that…

The biotech Athenex (Nasdaq:ATNX) plans to close a facility in Clarence, New York, by March 17, according to a notice from the New York State Department of Labor. It will cut 92 jobs in the process. The company also noted it would close its 503B sterile compounding business to focus on cell therapy. In the third…

In recent years, interest in blockchain distributed ledger technology has crescendoed and crashed. Boosters of the technology proclaimed that it could revolutionize everything from the pharma supply chain to business contracts. However, critics lamented that the technology often appeared like an expensive solution in search of a problem. “There’s been a lot of false promises…

The contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) Scorpion Biological Services will adopt the name Scorpius BioManufacturing after unveiling expanded manufacturing capabilities earlier this year. The company opened a new biomanufacturing facility in San Antonio in October. Scorpius will be headquartered in the same city. A string of companies have also changed their name in 2022. The smoking…

GSK plc (LSE/NYSE:GSK) has announced its plans to move to its global headquarters to a new building in central London in 2024. The company is currently based in Brentford, a suburban town in West London. GSK isn’t the only Big Pharma company to announce a headquarters change. In late November, Sanofi (Nasdaq:SNY) moved its home base to…

Pharma giant Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) plans to spend more than $2.5 billion in facilities in Belgium and Ireland as it looks to diversify its product portfolio, according to Reuters. In 2021, Pfizer generated $36.9 billion in sales from the Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine. The company projects its COVID-19 vaccine to rake in $34 billion in 2022, but COVID-related sales…

Contract manufacturing giant Catalent has wrapped up the expansion of a clinical supply facility in the Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone (FTZ) in Shanghai, China. The company is also cutting 400 temporary and full-time workers in Bloomington, Indiana and more than 210 workers in Texas and Maryland. In a statement from Bloomington, Indiana Mayor John Hamilton blames the…

AstraZeneca (LON:AZN) has sold its site in West Chester, Ohio, to National Resilience, a San Diego–headquartered biomanufacturing company. Resilience has agreed to maintain the site’s operations and assets while retaining its employees, including executives. The company will also continue investing in the site’s workforce and facility. Privately-held National Resilience also has separately announced that it…

Sanofi (Euronext:SAN and Nasdaq:SNY) has announced that it has moved into its new international headquarters to Paris’s 17th arrondissement neighborhood, which is located on the right bank of the Seine River.   The news headquarters, situated at 46-48 Avenue de la Grande Armée, was designed to promote novel ways to collaborate.  Measuring 9,000 m² in area,…

Emerson (NYSE:EMR) has launched its new Clean In Place (CIP) Utilities and Automated Reporting Analytics package on its PACEdge and Movicon platforms on an industrial edge control device. The food and beverage, and pharmaceutical industries use the clean- and steam-in-place method to clean fittings, vessels, filters, pipes and other internal surfaces without disassembly. Emerson notes that Steam In Place (SIP) has a more…