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November 2015, Volume 11 Issue 11
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Excipients Update
Outsourcing Update
Contract Services Update
Supply Chain Update

API Synthesis and Manufacturing

Reagents and Reactions Advance Fluorination Chemistry

In the ongoing search for better fluorinating reagents, solid reagents and new coupling reactions are showing promise.
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Hovione Expands Formulation Capabilities

Hovione acquired a formulation facility adjacent to its current process chemistry and particle engineering facility in Loures, Portugal.
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Grace Announces Silica-based Drug Delivery Platform

A collaboration between Grace and Formac Pharmaceuticals results in drug delivery options for poorly-soluble APIs.
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Capsugel Launches enTRinsic Drug Delivery Technology Platform

The technology offers full enteric protection of sensitive APIs without the need for functional coatings.
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Lubrizol Introduces Topical Film

The Transform film from Lubrizol LifeSciences is compatible with a range of APIs.
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Excipients Update

IPEC-America Suggests Improvements to FDA’s Inactive Ingredients Database

Representatives of the excipients industry responded to FDA’s request with new ways to make the IID more relevant and useful.
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Dow’s New Excipient Is Designed for Hot-Melt Extrusion

Dow’s AFFINISOL HPMC HME is a new cellulosic polymer designed to enhance solubilization and inhibit recrystallization of APIs in hot-melt extrusion formulations.
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EMD Millipore Presents New Sustained-Release Excipient for Oral Dosage Forms

Parteck SRP 80 is a functional excipient designed for sustained-release matrix tablets.
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Ashland Presents Scientific Studies for Drug Formulation

Ashland presented science-based strategies to enhance pharmaceutical formulation quality and advance drug delivery at AAPS 2015.
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Croda's French Facility Receives EXCiPACT Certification

Croda Choques SAS has become the company's third excipient manufacturing site, and the 24th such site worldwide, to receive certification.
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Outsourcing Update

CMOs Ride Continuing Strength of Small-Molecule Drug Sector

While biologic drug development grabs investor interest, small-molecule APIs still hold two-thirds of the drug-development pipeline.
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How CMO Consolidation is Shaping the Manufacturing Industry

The contract manufacturing landscape is morphing in response to new client demands and regulatory policies.
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Contract Services Update

Althea Builds Highly Potent Manufacturing Facility

Althea is expanding its existing biological drug-product manufacturing operations to include highly active materials, such as antibody-drug conjugates, in a new facility near San Diego, CA.
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Aesica Pharmaceuticals Announces New Service Model

CDMO Aesica Pharmaceuticals launched a new brand identity that reflects the new alignment and consolidation of the Consort Medical group and a new service to manage other CDMOs.
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Xcelience Opens New Headquarters

CDMO Xcelience opens new facility in Tampa, FL, for formulation and analytical services.
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Supply Chain Update

FDA Extends Compliance Dates for Drug Dispensers

Citing compliance issues, FDA has extended the deadline for product tracing information requirements for dispensers to March 1, 2016.
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Rx-360 Names Mark Paxton as New CEO

Paxton will lead the Rx-360 mission to protect patient safety, and ensure the integrity of the healthcare supply chain and the quality of materials within the supply chain.
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Catalent Expands Cold-Chain Capacity at Shanghai Facility

Catalent Pharma Solutions announced plans to quadruple the cold-chain capacity at its existing clinical supply storage and distribution facility in Shanghai, China.
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