Monday, June 11, 2018 Daily Archives

Coming to America: WuXi Biologics Expands Again

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WuXi Biologics will construct its first biomanufacturing facility in the US. The US$60 million plant is the third overseas expansion announced in the past month by the Chinese CDMO. Chinese contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) WuXi Biologics has rapidly begun expanding its biomanufacturing capacity. A string of investments over the past few weeks will add new capacity in China as well as see the firm venture overseas, including in the US where a US$60 million (€51 million) plant in…

June 11, 2018

Automated Tech Ups Hitachi’s Cell Therapy Interest

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Recent entrant to the regenerative medicine space Hitachi Chemical has partnered with Invetech to commercialize the Counter-Flow Centrifugation system – an automated platform for cell therapy manufacturing. The partnership will allow customers of Hitachi Chemical Advanced Therapeutics Solutions (HCATS) to access Invetech’s Counter-Flow Centrifugation (CFC) system in the clinical and commercial manufacturing of cell-based therapies using closed single-use disposables. Hitachi entered the regenerative medicine space in 2017 through the $US75 million (€64 million) acquisition of cell therapy contract development and…

June 11, 2018

Longstanding Bio Partner Celltrion Launches Full CDMO Unit

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The Korean firm, which boasts Teva and Pfizer as partners, has consolidated its third-party services to offer a full CDMO platform. Celltrion announced at BIO in Boston last week it is launching a “Bio CDMO†(contract development and manufacturing) business. According to the South Korean biologics maker, the service consolidates its current third-party offerings, combining cell line development and production process, with clinical and commercial biomanufacturing. Spokesperson Gunhyuk Lee told BioProcess Insider: “You could consider this CDMO business as a…

June 11, 2018