Projects

This section presents pharmaceutical projects that are announced from time-to-time around the world.

Teva to set up API facility in India

Teva Pharmaceutical, the generic drug manufacturer from Israel has planned to make its presence felt in India through acquiring Indian drug companies and set up greenfield manufacturing facilities Teva is planning to set up an Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient API over 100 acres of land it has recently acquired to come up to the standards of the dom...

PTR to build stem cell manufacturing plant

Introduction Pahang Technology Resources Sdn Bhd PTR a Malaysian government unit has decided to team up with BCRO Stem Cell Xenotransplantation Sdn Bhd to jointly build a new stem cell manufacturing plant Location The stem cell manufacturing plant will be located on

Genentech Sets up Manufacturing Plant in Singapore

Introduction Genentech, Inc, has planned to set up a commercialscale microbialbased biologics manufacturing facility in Singapore It will be the first microbialbased facility in Singapore The plant will be spread across 82 hectares of land and when fully in operation, the facility will provide 1,000 litres of capacity for the production of E coli...

Aptuit Laurus's New Manufacturing Facility in India

Introduction Aptuit, Inc Greenwich, Connecticut and Laurus Labs Limited Hyderabad, India have formed a joint venture, to bring their presence in the Indian pharmaceutical market through a Research and Development facility near Hyderabad, which has recently completed, and a drugmanufacturing centre which is under construction in Visakhapatnam and a...

New R&D Center in Madhya Pradesh, India

Introduction The Government of Madhya Pradesh proposes to establish an integrated RD center in the State The center will offer specialty services in drug discovery preclinical research It will facilitate access to highend, comprehensive research functions at one place and ameliorate technology bottlenecks This will expedite drug development by rap...

Janssen-Cilag and Johnson & Johnson to open new facility in Mumbai, India

Introduction JanssenCilag and Johnson Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Development JJPRD broke ground for a future pharmaceutical research building after opening the extended and renovated Analytical Pharmaceutical Development Center APDC in Mumbai Planning to expand its overall presence in the

Klockner Pentaplast to build manufacturing plant in India

Introduction The Klckner Pentaplast Group kp a leading producer and supplier of films for pharmaceutical, medical device, and generalpurpose thermoform packaging announced its plans to build a manufacturing plant in India in Aurangabad Further to this Klckner Pentaplast, to pursue process development, technology transfer from other Klckn

Dragon to build new nanotechnology packaging plant

Dragon International Group Corp a manufacturer and distributor of specialty paper products and packaging materials, operating within central and eastern China, plans to build a new manufacturing facility which will be utilised to make new packaging products developed through the use of nanotechnologies The new plant will manufacture products for th...

Zydus and Mayne build new plant to manufacture oncology products in India

Zydus Cadila and Mayne Pharma, an injectable specialty pharmaceuticals company based in Australia signed a joint venture agreement to set up a 5050 joint venture company to manufacture generic injectable, cytotoxic anticancer medicines and active pharmaceutical ingredients API for global markets The two companies will share equally the investment...

Dishman Pharma manufacturing facility in Shanghai

Dishman Pharmaceuticals and Chemicals Ltd is setting up a new greenfield manufacturing facility in Shanghai Chemical Industry Park at a cost of Rs 45 crore $10 million The project, which is expected to go on stream by the end of 2007, will offer the company a major advantage in the cost of production since the cost of utilities in China is half the...