16.04.2020
- The change in the product portfolio of many chemical companies away from commodities to customer-specific specialties is one of the current challenges facing the process industry...
15.04.2020
- The pharmaceutical industry has been slowly, but surely, embracing continuous manufacturing (CM) over the past decade. In fact, most large pharma companies have invested in...
15.04.2020
- The strong focus on supply chain security will increase cost of pharmaceutical production in years to come. In this context, companies considering production in mid to high labor...
15.04.2020
- Due to the coronavirus crisis, Ineos has postponed the planned annual maintenance shutdown of its UK North Sea Forties Pipeline for almost a year, to assure its chemical feedstock...
15.04.2020
- Two leading European drugmakers, France’s Sanofi and Glaxo SmithKline (GSK) have signed a letter of intent to develop an adjuvanted vaccine for COVID-19, exploiting advanced...
14.04.2020
- Established in 2004 by the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE), the Facility of the Year Awards (FOYA) recognize innovation and creativity in manufacturing...
14.04.2020
- Finnish research group VTT is exploring the feasibility of using biomass and waste plastics to make fuel oils for power plants and ship diesel engines. The aim of the three-year...
14.04.2020
- Through a combination of equity and debt, private equity giant Blackstone will invest up to $2 billion in Cambridge, Massachusetts-based US biotech Alnylam Pharmaceuticals. The...
08.04.2020
- AGC Pharma Chemicals Europe, part of Japanese group AGC (formerly known as Asahi Glass Chemical), plans to expand its facilities in Barcelona, Spain, in order to meet accelerating...
08.04.2020
- In early March, the Indian government asserted that the coronavirus epidemic in China was affecting its supply of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), on which it relies for...