Supplier News
Novasep Inks Partnership Agreements with Two Japan-Based Companies
The supplier will add Allied Laboratories and AR Brown to its list of global partners.
Patheon Files Registration For IPO
A year after its merger with DSM Pharmaceutical Products, Patheon announces that it has filed an IPO.
Sartorius Opens New York Demonstration Lab
A new demonstration facility in New York gives Sartorius’ customers hands-on access to bioprocessing systems and lab instruments.
New Cell-Culture Media Compaction Technology Introduced
EMD Millipore debuts a new cell-culture media compacting technology that will turn messy, dry powders into granules.
Waters Announces New Mass Spectrometry Technology
Waters announces it will introduce its new technology at the 63rd Society of Mass Spectrometry conference.
CMC Biologics Expands Denmark Facility
The Denmark facility will incorporate CMC’s Bioreactor 6Pack configuration in one manufacturing line.
Circassia Invests $377 Million in Asthma Specialists
UK-based Circassia invests approximately $377 million on Aerocrine and Prosonix, two companies focused on asthma.
SAFC Expansions Address Significant Need for Enhanced Manufacturing Capabilities
SAFC’s new ADC wing in St. Louis, MO will feature commercial-scale manufacture of antibody-drug conjugates, and its Carlsbad, CA site will offer enhanced gene-therapy services.
Pall to be Acquired by Danaher
Pall has agreed to be acquired by Danaher for $127.20 per share.
Sigma-Aldrich Opens Cell Culture Technical Center in Singapore
The new center will primarily support SAFC’s biopharmaceutical development and manufacturing clients in Asia.
Udit Batra to Head Combined Merck and Sigma-Aldrich Business
Udit Batra, current head of Merck KGaA’s life science business, will lead the combined life science businesses following successful completion of Sigma-Aldrich acquisition.
SAFC Introduces New Media System
The system is compatible with a wide range of industrial CHO cell lines.
Pall Corporation Acquires BioSMB Technology
Pall’s acquisition of BioSMB from Tarpon Biosystems expands its downstream continuous processing offerings.
Continuous Manufacturing: A Changing Processing Paradigm
Making the switch from batch to continuous manufacturing requires a thorough understanding of the process.
Genentech Expands Oregon Fill/Finish Site
Genentech plans to invest more than $125 million in an expansion of its fill/finish facility in Hillsboro, OR.
Rentschler Puts New Bioreactor Into Play
The new 2000-L bioreactor will double Rentschler’s single-use manufacturing capabilities.
Sigma-Aldrich to Be Exclusive Supplier of Roche Analytical Tools
Under a new agreement, Sigma-Aldrich will be the single supplier for Roche’s Biochemical Reagents product portfolio.
Patheon Acquires IRIX Pharmaceuticals
Patheon cites expanded API services with acquisition of IRIX Pharmaceuticals.
Merck Animal Health and XL-protein Partner to Produce Biopharmaceuticals for Animals
The companies partnered to create more effective biopharmaceuticals through the exploitation of PASylation.
World Courier Adds New Distribution Center in Australia
The new center represents AmerisourceBergen’s first facility erected specifically for clinical trial and commercial third-party logistics activities.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Acquires Advanced Scientifics
Thermo Fisher Scientific adds Advanced Scientific’s custom single-use systems and equipment to its bioprocessing offerings.
Precision Biologics Enlists the Help of EMD Millipore for Upstream Process Development
EMD Millipore will provide process development services for Precision Biologics’ preclinical monoclonal antibody.
Catalent Expands High-Potency Handling Capability
Catalent will add potent containment for blending and granulation at its New Jersey manufacturing Center of Excellence.
FUJIFILM Diosynth Begins Work on Bioprocess Innovation Center
The new facility will feature new research and development capabilities.
SAFC Expands Irvine Facility
The new facility will feature dry powder cell-culture media capabilities.
Baxter BioPharma Solutions Joins PBOA
Nelson Patterson has been elected to Pharma & Biopharma Outsourcing Association board.
Argos Partners With Saint-Gobain on Single-Use Components for Immunotherapy Manufacturing
Single-use components aid efficiency in automated personalized therapy manufacturing.
Avid Bioservices Announces Expansion of cGMP Manufacturing Capacity
Biomanufacturing capacity expansion uses modular cleanroom design and single-use technologies.
Paragon Bioservices to Scale Up Protein Manufacturing
Under an NIH contract, Paragon Bioservices will design a manufacturing process for recombinant human rhE-selectin protein.
Grand River Aseptic Manufacturing Secures Two Contracts
Grand River Aseptic Manufacturing has announced that the company executed two commercial production contracts in one day.