IMCD has opened a new Pharmaceutical Technical Centre and Food & Nutrition Hub in Allendale, NJ — bringing labs, co-creation space, and global expertise together to speed up product development.
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Shorter development cycles and complex active ingredients are demanding integrated solutions. Guided by the principle "Together – from lab to production," Fette Compacting positions its R&D Solutions as a partnership.
Marking 35 years of innovation, Enamine has grown from a regional supplier into one of the world's leading compound and service providers.
Lonza and Antharis Therapeutics announced an exclusive, target-specific licensing agreement to develop novel dual-payload ADCs targeting gastrointestinal (GI) cancers.
Recipharm announced a multi-million-dollar investment in its US operations, strengthening its ability to support pharma and biotech companies with advanced sterile fill and finish services.
Chiesi Group has completed its acquisition of KalVista Pharmaceuticals, marking the Italian biopharmaceutical group's largest deal to date.
Siegfried has inaugurated a new large-scale API production facility at its German site in Minden.
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GSK has agreed to acquire US clinical-stage oncology specialist Nuvalent for $10.6 billion, its largest deal in years, to accelerate entry into lung cancer and boost growth through the dolutegravir patent cliff.
Axplora is repositioning its Italian Farmabios site on high-potency APIs as UDCA production moves to its FDA-approved Vizag facility in India, consolidating supply and scaling for global demand.
A clear signal to Berlin: the pharmaceutical companies Eli Lilly and Boehringer Ingelheim are canceling planned investments in Germany.
Sygnature Discovery has partnered with AI firm DaltonTx to sharpen its drug discovery pipeline, bringing faster medicinal chemistry decisions and tighter data privacy to its CRO offering.
Northway Biotech is finalizing the Baltic region's most advanced cell therapy center — a 3,500 m² facility at Vilnius City Innovation Industrial Park, set to open Q3 2025.
Precise, reproducible, and regulatory-ready: CE-based methods are redefining how scientists characterize therapeutic mAbs and ADCs across the biotherapeutic development pipeline.
Asahi Kasei Life Science has acquired the license rights for a novel antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) technology from The Noguchi Institute.
Acquisition strengthens US peptide manufacturing capabilities and broadens global expertise in complex peptide APIs
Catalent partners with non-profit Elpida Therapeutics to support late-phase AAV manufacturing for a rare neurological gene therapy, securing exclusive rights across Elpida's broader AAV pipeline.
Hongene Biotech delivers end-to-end CDMO services for SiranBio's dual-target siRNA hepatitis B candidate, from raw materials through cGMP manufacturing, highlighting its capabilities in oligonucleotide therapeutics.
Bristol Myers Squibb licenses Lonza's SYNtecan linker-payload platform to advance an undisclosed ADC target, with Lonza eligible for upfront payments, milestones and royalties on resulting products.
Piramal Pharma Solutions opens a new payload-linker suite in Michigan as part of a $90 million US investment plan, bolstering its ADC manufacturing capabilities across sites in Riverview and Lexington.
Symeres, a transatlantic CRDMO for drug discovery and development, announced the appointment of Henning Steinhagen as Chief Executive Officer.
Takeda has officially commissioned a new photovoltaic system at its production site in Oranienburg near Berlin.
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All closing conditions satisfied for the acquisition of three small molecule sites in the US and Australia; closing to occur as of May 1, 2026. Adds highly demanded US-based manufacturing capacity to Siegfried's network.
In this CHEManager Leaders & Motivators interview, Frank Romanski, Lonza Capsugel, reflects on how strategy becomes execution and what resilience demands from teams,
India’s CDMO sector is rapidly advancing: stronger R&D, complex chemistry, digitalization, and efficiency gains. Astec boosts this with new R&D centers, automation, and global‑standard operations.
The investment, its largest since its inception, demonstrates continued progress against AbbVie's $100 billion commitment to US R&D and capital investments, including manufacturing, over the next decade.
Evonik is expanding its biotechnological production capacities at the Fermas site in Slovenská Ľupča with an investment of around €80 million
Asahi Kasei has completed its acquisition of Germany’s Aicuris, adding three antiviral assets, in a deal previously reported at about €780 million.
