Keyword: biologics

Plant Construction & Process Technology

Innovative Medicine with Rising Productivity Targets

07.10.2015 - The need to get products quicker to market, to ensure greater regulatory compliance and to boost efficiencies while reducing operational cost is a challenging goal. Owing to the...

Plant Construction & Process Technology

Growth Amid Risk

07.10.2015 - Interest in the biopharma industry continues to grow, making the development and manufacturing services of the biologic entities for both drug substance and drug product a more...

Plant Construction & Process Technology

Chances and Hurdles for Biosimilars

07.10.2015 - With biosimilars the pharmaceutical industry and health-care business move into a relatively young discipline with high sales potential. The follow-up drugs of biopharmaceuticals...

Markets & Companies

Leaving the Patent Cliff Behind

07.10.2015 - The pharmaceutical industry is entering a period of sustained growth. Prescription drug sales are set to advance at almost 5% a year until 2020, while worldwide prescription drug...

News

AstraZeneca Acquires US Biologics Plant from Amgen

14.09.2015 - As a first step toward doubling its manufacturing and production capacity for biologics in the US, AstraZeneca has acquired a high-tech biologics bulk manufacturing facility in...

Strategy & Management

Significant Value Creation

03.09.2015 - In September 2014, Merck announced the €13.1 billion acquisition of Sigma-Aldrich, which by mid-August has received antitrust clearance from all relevant jurisdictions including...

News

Amgen Gets Nod for New Cholesterol Drug

31.08.2015 - Amgen has won US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for Repatha, the second medicine in a new class of biologics recently greenlighted by the agency and claimed to reduce...

News

Bristol-Myers Squibb and Lonza Extend Biologics Agreement

31.10.2014 - US drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb and Swiss fine and specialty chemicals specialist Lonza have announced a multi-year expansion of their existing biologics manufacturing agreement...