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 debuts software for CIP applications
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…
GE HealthCare investing $80M in contrast media ingredients plant in Norway
GE HealthCare today announced it is investing $80 million to expand contrast media production capacity in Norway. The investment will go toward increasing manufacturing capacity by 30% at its active pharmaceutical ingredients site in Lindesnes, Norway. As a result, the investment will create around 100 new jobs. GE HealthCare officials have committed to addressing the…
Novartis to shutter Zolgensma plant, resulting in 275 layoffs
The Basel, Switzerland–based Big Pharma company has decided to consolidate the manufacturing for its gene therapy Zolgensma (onasemnogene abeparvovec-xioi). Plants dedicated to producing Zolgensma were based in Libertyville, Illinois and Durham, North Carolina. The company has announced that it will close the former plant, ultimately eliminating 275 jobs. Novartis anticipates that the Libertyville site will…
Stäubli highlights pharmaceutical packaging robots at Pack Expo
Stäubli Robotics will highlight its robot-based automation technology used for pharmaceutical manufacturing and packaging at the Pack Expo event scheduled for October 23–26 in Chicago. The company will display its technology at booth 18025 at the event The company notes that robots for primary and secondary packaging and palletizing are evolving in complexity to handle…
Lonza bolsters HPAPI multipurpose suite for payload linkers in Switzerland
Contract development and manufacturing organization Lonza has completed the expansion of its highly potent API (HPAPI) multipurpose suite in Visp, Switzerland. The expansion gives Lonza additional development and manufacturing capacity for antibody-drug conjugates (ADC) payloads. The site includes a range of equipment for manufacturing payload linkers. Divided into cleavable and non-cleavable types, linkers are a vital…
Purdue University receives $3M to further pharma waste reduction efforts
The National Science Foundation has granted Purdue University researchers a $3 million grant to explore new pharma waste reduction strategies. While many life science companies have prioritized sustainability initiatives, the pharmaceutical industry continues to generate substantial sums of toxic waste. “It’s a waste problem that causes economic, social and environmentally negative impact,” noted project leader…
Lonza expands particle engineering services in Monteggio, Switzerland
The Swiss multinational manufacturing firm Lonza (SWX:LONN) has bolstered its particle engineering services available at its site in Monteggio, Switzerland. In particular, the new site will offer X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD) services. XRPD is a rapid analytical technique that offers insight into the polymorph and solid-state properties of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). Lonza employees at…
Astellas to spend $70M on new biotech campus in South San Francisco
Astellas Pharma (TSE: 4503) plans to establish a biotech campus in South San Francisco, California, as the core of its West Coast R&D operations. Located near Genentech and Verily Life Sciences facilities, the site at 480 Forbes Boulevard will consolidate several Astellas business units and functions currently based throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. The…
Mettler Toledo Rainin expands facilities in Vacaville, California
Liquid-handling instrument firm Mettler-Toledo Rainin, LLC has expanded its presence in the Interchange Business Park in Vacaville, California, a biomanufacturing hub 35 miles southeast of Sacramento. “We are excited to expand our manufacturing operations in Vacaville,” said Werner Maas, Rainin general manager, in a news release. “The high cost and scarcity of real estate in the central…