Contract Manufacturing, General

Contractors are working with sponsor companies to establish and maintain sustainable manufacturing practices in pharma.

Contract manufacturers have special expertise in the characterization and validation of biopharmaceutical manufacturing processes.

Contract development and manufacturing organizations (CDMOs) are more critical than ever as the demand for advanced therapies continues to grow.

Cellipont Bioservices and Xiogenix Partner on Advanced Filling Systems The companies will offer Cellipont’s clients access to Xiogenix’ fill/finish system for cell therapy production.

Modular and replication strategies are being utilized to meet growing demand for CDMO facilities.

Thermo Fisher Scientific's launch of its Accelerator Drug Development follows expansions of sites in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Bend, Ore., earlier in 2024 to enable R&D, manufacturing, and testing.

Results from the CPHI annual survey show that 49% of industry respondents are “highly positive” on the contract services sector seeing growth over the next 18 months.

The two companies are partnering to provide logistics and manufacturing services to biotechnology and pharma companies.

Contract organizations offer sponsors specialized equipment, capacity, and expertise for testing, manufacturing, and packaging bio/pharmaceutical products.

The addition of BIOVECTRA’s biologics capabilities to accelerate drug development and manufacturing will allow Agilent to expand its end-to-end offerings for biopharma services.

The company plans to invest approximately €900 million (US$983 million) to expand its peptide platform at its Colorado, US, site and in Europe.

The companies have completed the expansion and qualification phase and now enter a stand-by phase for five years.

This article looks at the relationship between a CDMO quality organization and the client.

Key areas to invest include manufacturing process improvements, quality management, and AI.

This investment will bolster the company’s large-scale cell culture CDMO business at its planned Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies manufacturing facility in Holly Springs, North Carolina.

There are considerations companies may want to consider before seeking out a service provider.

The company’s Itasca, Ill., facility will offer chemistry, manufacturing, and controls analytical testing support.

The expansion will boost solid-phase peptide synthesis total reactor volume to 32,000 L.

The new centralized hub will provide advanced testing of nucleic acids, which is expected to simplify mRNA substance testing.

These results will provide insights from more than 250 global pharma executives, including discoveries such as pharma confidence dipping below the record scores of 2022, although it has remained extremely resilient despite wider macro uncertainly, according to the press release.

Sterling is known as a global contract development and manufacturing organization, and their network spreads to a manufacturing site in Cramlington, United Kingdom, a recently GMP-licensed dedicated bioconjugation facility in Deeside, and a 111-acre site in Ringaskiddy, Ireland.

Further expansions of the pharmaceutical development and manufacturing services of ten23 are happening at the BASE and VIVA facilities to continue to support complex sterile product development, testing, and manufacturing.

WuXi XDC will provide end-to-end services to support Boostimmune’s discovery of novel bioconjugates.

More than a third of CMOs are struggling to keep skilled technical and production staff.

The more information shared, the smoother the approval process, says Susan J. Schniepp, distinguished fellow with Regulatory Compliance Associates.

The facility is based on a state-of-the-art design concept that allows maximum flexibility for a multi-product, multi-platform offering.

Outsourcing collaborations provide insight into the key drivers of market growth.

The new portfolio from the acquisition will include contract research organization solutions, contract development and manufacturing organization solutions, and KSM/API solutions.

The bio/pharma outsourcing industry continues to be integral in the development and manufacture of medicines.

The technology is designed to enable patients to self-inject biologic-based therapies at home instead of a hospital setting.