pharmaceutical manufacturing

ISPE announces Thomas B. Hartman as new CEO and President

The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) announced that Thomas B. Hartman has been appointed as the CEO and President, effective 1 June 2020. He has a long history of success in the pharmaceutical industry, rising to the role of Vice President of GMP Operations, Biopharm CMC, for Glaxo-Smith-...

Powtech India postponed to February 2021

Powtech India will be postponed due to current circumstances from its initial dates in September 2020 to February 2021. Powtech India will now take place parallel to HPCI India on 11 - 12 February 2021 in Mumbai. Companies can register for the trade fair with accompanying congress and supporting programme. Since 2010,...

Boehringer Ingelheim’s commercial manufacturing facility in Shanghai has been awarded as “Facility of the Year”

Boehringer Ingelheim Biopharmaceuticals China Ltd. has been awarded with a 2020 Facility of the Year Award (FOYA) from the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE). The company received an Honorable Mention award for its commercial facility in Shanghai, which is located at Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, a...

Viroclinics Biosciences and DDL Diagnostic Laboratory join forces

Viroclinics Biosciences, a leading virology contract research organization, announced that it has acquired DDL Diagnostic Laboratory, a leading diagnostic solutions provider. The transaction enhances the combined group's leading global position in anti-viral and vaccine testing and will serve to accelerate their...

High Moisture Meat Analogue (HMMA) discharging from the cooling die flanged directly to the Coperion ZSK food extruder

For its ZSK food extruder, Coperion has developed a hybrid solution for manufacturing meat substitute products. With only a minimum of retrofitting effort, both texturized vegetable protein (TVP) and high moisture meat analogues (HMMA) can be produced on this ZSK Food Extruder, providing manufacturers of meat...

The credit outlook for the pharmaceutical sector in 2020 remains stable

The credit outlook for the pharmaceutical sector in 2020 remains stable. Successful innovation is underpinning strong growth in an industry which benefits from powerful secular trends - ageing populations and more affluent lifestyles. Scope Ratings says that some potential threats to the industry’s growth are also...

Gerresheimer manufactures sustainable primary plastic packaging

Consumers are placing great importance on eco-friendly plastic packaging products, specifically - and increasingly - on sustainable packaging solutions that can be disposed of in an environmentally friendly way. At Gerresheimer, therefore, innovation and environmental protection go hand in hand. A pioneer in the quest...

Boehringer Ingelheim manufactures the first biopharmaceutical approved in China under new Marketing Authorization Holder contract manufacturing regulatory system

Through its collaboration with Beigene, Ltd. and the provision of manufacturing services for their monoclonal antibody tislelizumab, Boehringer Ingelheim Biopharmaceuticals China is the first company to successfully apply the adopted Marketing Authorization Holder (MAH) system within the revised Chinese Drug...

Rentschler Biopharma, is a leading contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), focused exclusively on client projects

Rentschler Biopharma SE, a world-class contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) for biopharmaceuticals, is taking the first step in the expansion project to grow its U.S. footprint and establish a Center of Excellence in North America, putting into operation a single-use bioreactor for the 93,000...

Leveraging the concept of virtual assistants, BASF expertise becomes available to its customers, supporting during all stages of the drug development process

On this year’s CPhI Worldwide, BASF will launch and present its new web-based digital solutions, Zoomlab, Regxcellence and "MyProductWorld". An interdisciplinary team of chemists, pharmacists, regulatory specialists and digital experts developed the products from lab to reality. During the show BASF will also announce...