Manufacturing

Pfizer will invest $100 million to expand its manufacturing facilities in Sanford, North Carolina.

FDA requests more detailed information on a post-marketing study for Dynavax’s hep-B vaccine, which will require an extended review time past its August 2017 PDUFA date.

Through its life-sciences business, MilliporeSigma, Merck KGaA will collaborate with Baylor College of Medicine to advance vaccine development for neglected and emerging diseases.

Lonza further expands its micronization services with the acquisition of Swiss contract manufacturer, Micro-Macinazione, following its previous $5.5-billion acquisition of dosage form provider, Capsugel.

The Washington-headquartered biotech firm plans to use the newly purchased facility to produce antibodies for its current and future pipeline.

Horizon to make publicly available its complete annotated CHO cell-line sequence in hopes of driving bioproduction cell-line innovation.

The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) introduced its Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing Conference, happening December 4–6, 2017 in San Francisco, California.

FDA advances the progress of biosimilars with acceptance of regulatory filing for biosimilar referencing a blockbuster biologic by Roche.

Amid debate about “fake news,” peer-review papers offer vital, objective insight.

Improved resin chemistries and customized separation solutions are enabling more efficient separations.

Media manufacturers are focused on reducing risk, improving quality and consistency, and managing costs.

Industry experts weigh in on best practices, challenges, and mutual recognition of cleaning validation standards.

Managing and prioritizing risk is essential to ensuring raw material quality. USP is developing new guidelines to make the work easier.

Investigational failures and discrepancies can be avoided through the proper execution and documentation of investigations.

Partnership aims to develop new vaccine regimens against hep B and HIV by combining respective proprietary vaccine technologies.

Stainless-steel particulates were found in one lot of 0.9% Sodium Chloride Injection, USP 1000 mL, prompting the recall to the hospital/user level.

New patent for automated cell processing technology provides commercially viable automated CMC solution for developing CAR-T cell therapies.

Lonza introduces new modular complex that offers flexibility and individually tailored solutions to biomanufacturing challenges.

Corning and Gerresheimer have been working together to accelerate innovations for pharmaceutical glass packaging.

Recipharm set up a manufacturing line at its facility in Sweden using LIDD’s NanoZolid technology.

FDA sent a warning letter to Sage Products, Inc. regarding CGMP failures involving test methods, sampling, and sterilization procedures.

Manufacturing capacity will be increased by one third and approximately 300 new high-wage and highly-skilled jobs will be created at the Fremont site.

GE Healthcare partners with Oritain for an independent test that can confirm the country of origin of fetal bovine serum (FBS), a component of biopharmaceutical production.

Industry collaboration group releases technology roadmap to address pressure on biopharmaceutical manufacturers to innovate biomanufacturing processes.

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.