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10 Apr 2024

Generic lomustine to be first product of US-based partnership

Amid shortages of cancer drugs in the U.S., the API Innovation Center will use continuous manufacturing technology and a partnership with Apertus Pharmaceuticals and the Glioblastoma Foundation to produce lomustine, which is used to treat brain tumors.
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20 Mar 2024

Novo Invests $556M in China Operations to Boost Manufacturing Capacity

Novo Nordisk is investing approximately $556 million, or ¥4 billion, in a sterile preparations expansion project in its facility in China’s Tianjin city, the Danish drugmaker announced Tuesday in a Chinese-language announcement.
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27 Feb 2024

Alcami Grows Drug Testing Footprint In Wilmington

North Carolina pharmaceutical company Alcami Corporation has doubled its stability storage capability in Wilmington.
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31 Jan 2024

AbbVie pumps $223M into Singapore biologics plant, plots 100 hires

In late 2022, GSK, Sanofi and Takeda signed on with a partnership of local agencies to advance biologic manufacturing in Singapore. Now, a little more than a year later, AbbVie is getting in on the action by starting a major production expansion in the Ga
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15 Jan 2024

Boehringer Ingelheim Expands Facility in Greece for Production of New Therapeutics

On Jan. 11, 2024, Boehringer Ingelheim announced that it is investing €120 million (US$131 million) to further expand and upgrade its production facility in Koropi, Greece. With the investment, the company plans to increase manufacturing capacity of new a
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09 Jan 2024

WuXi Biologics plans to expand manufacturing capacity at The Reactory

A Chinese pharmaceutical firm that is looking to make The Reactory life sciences park off Belmont Street its home will expand its drug manufacturing capacity by 50%, according to the company.
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25 Dec 2023

CDMO expands ADC facility in Scotland

Contract development and manufacturing organisation, Piramal Pharma Solutions, has expanded its antibody drug conjugate manufacturing facility in Scotland.
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18 Dec 2023

WuXi Vaccines Clears First GMP Audit

WuXi Vaccines, a global vaccine CDMO, has successfully passed an on-site GMP audit by a global vaccine company at its first standalone CDMO site in Suzhou, China.
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09 Dec 2023

Boosting Biopharma’s Use of Freeze-Drying

In biopharmaceutical freeze drying—lyophilization—protein drugs are stabilized by removing water and solvents. The process consists of a freezing phase in which the water is crystallized into a solid, a sublimation step that converts this ice into a gas,
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