Manufacturing

Hallie Forcinio is packing editor for Pharmaceutical Technology and Pharmaceutical Technology Europe, editorhal@sbcglobal.net.

Articles

Parenteral packaging will be well-represented at INTERPHEX, especially technologies associated with fill/finish of ready-to-use vials, cartridges, and syringes.

Parenteral Packaging Equipment On Display at INTERPHEX

The company is voluntarily recalling one lot of Edex due to a lack of container closure integrity.

Endo Pharmaceuticals Recalls Alprostadil

IDT Biologika will provide fill/finish services of live-vectored virus products in clinical development through licensure.

BARDA Contracts IDT Biologika for Live Virus Fill/Finish Services

Prefilled syringes for commercial supply of the etanercept biosimilar will be produced at Catalent’s Brussels facility in Belgium.

Catalent to Provide Fill and Finish Services for Samsung Bioepis’ Biosimilar

PaizaBio will add aseptic injectable production capacity in Hangzhou, China.

PaizaBio Receives CFDA Approval for Expansion

Primary packaging and manufacturing technologies minimize product/package interaction, protect quality, support safe travel through the supply chain, and enhance performance at point of use.

Protecting Parenterals in Primary Packaging

Eric Langer has over 25 years experience in biotechnology and life sciences strategic marketing management, market research, and publishing. He has held senior management and marketing positions at biopharmaceutical supply companies. He has published and authored many books and reports on topics in Biotechnology, Large-scale BioManufacturing, and bioscience commercialization and communication. He teaches at Johns Hopkins University marketing management, biotech marketing, services marketing, and marketing in a regulated environment. In 1989 he co-founded BioPlan Associates, Inc. to provide market analysis, and strategy to biotech and healthcare organizations.

This key bioprocessing segment is expecting continued growth

Fill/Finish Outsourcing

Gretchen L. Shearer, PhD, is a senior research chemist at McCrone Associates and an instructor at Hooke College of Applied Sciences, Westmont, IL. gshearer@mccrone.com.

Visual inspection of parenteral vials is the first step in a root cause investigation.

Taking a Closer Look at Parenteral Contaminants

Randi Hernandez was science editor at Pharmaceutical Technology from September 2014 to May 2017.

Improvements to aseptic manufacturing procedures are long overdue. But how feasible is it for manufacturers to modernize fill lines of legacy products?

Parenteral Advisory: Outmoded Fill/Finish Technology

Dalton Pharma Services completed an expansion in sterile filling and API manufacturing at its cGMP facility in Toronto, Canada.

Manufacturing, Parenterals and Injectables