Supply Chain Update

FDA to Lead International Effort to Secure the Supply Chain

The agency will lead an international team to create a Supply Chain Security Toolkit of resources to educate the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries on supply chain vulnerabilities.
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Intertek Launches Confidential Pharmaceutical Shared Audit Services in the UK

Intertek seeks to bring cost efficiencies to the pharmaceutical supply chain through confidential shared audits.
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TruTag Technologies Wins Technology Innovation Award for Taggants

TruTags, the company's silicon dioxide microtags, won Frost & Sullivan's 2017 North American Award for Technology Innovation.
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In the Lab

New Lab Instruments Tackle Workflow Challenges

Recent product introductions demonstrate improvements in accuracy and streamlined operations.
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APIs & Excipients

New Reactors Spur Continuous API Manufacturing

Industrial-scale continuous API manufacturing may offer cost and safety benefits.
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Nitto Denko Avecia Announces Manufacturing Expansion

The addition of 20,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing and office space increases Avecia's Milford, Ma, oligonucleotide capacity to 3.0 mol.
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Outsourcing Update

Report: Dose CMOs Stuck in Idle

Contract manufacturers await a promising pipeline of drug products to jump-start stagnant growth.
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Contract Services Update

Lonza Launches New Biomanufacturing Complex

Lonza introduces new modular complex that offers flexibility and individually tailored solutions to biomanufacturing challenges.
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Recipharm and LIDDS Establish Industrial Manufacturing Capabilities for Prostate Cancer Drug

Recipharm set up a manufacturing line at its facility in Sweden using LIDD's NanoZolid technology.
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Catalent Adds Early Development Offerings to OptiForm Platform

Catalent expands the scope of the OptiForm Solution Suite to bridge gap from late-stage discovery to Phase I trials.
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Alcami Relocates Headquarters to Research Triangle Park, NC

Alcami will move its headquarters to Durham, NC while maintaining its manufacturing and laboratory operations in Wilmington, NC.
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Recro Gainesville Adds Manufacturing Capacity

Recro Gainsville expands its tableting capacity with the addition of a tablet press and film coater.
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PCI Pharma Services Expands Serialization Capability at Wales Site

The suite installation increases PCI's Hay-on-Wye site's serialization capability to support clients in advance of meeting the implementation dates of the European Falsified Medicines Directive.
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Samsung BioLogics to Manufacture Tildrakizumab

Samsung BioLogics signs $55.5 million agreement to manufacture tildrakizumab for Sun Pharma.
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Patheon Invests $45 Million in Facilities

Patheon will add spray drying, sterile manufacturing, and packaging capabilities to four facilities.
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