PHARMACEUTICAL/BIOTECHNOLOGY
INDUSTRY UPDATE
May 2012
McIlvaine Company
TABLE OF CONTENTS
UNITED STATES
NantWorks Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plant Expands in Indiana, USA
Buck Institute Regenerative Medicine Research Center, California
Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building Opens in Colorado
SGS Life Science Services Expands Services
Fluidigm, Broad Institute Collaborate on Research Center
UWM to Build Freshwater Genomics Lab on Lake Michigan
Okay Industries Expands in US and Costa Rica
Almac Installs Uhlmann Blister Line in New U.S. Facility
ImmunoCellular Brings Second Manufacturing Site for Cancer Vaccine Online
Plumbers Union to Build Glens Falls Cleanroom Training Center
California Pacific Medical Center Gets Approval
Abbott Increases Biologics Capacity
Provista Opens GLP Lab
Protea Opens Bioanalytical Services Facility
OSO Bio Invests In Aseptic Filling Suite
New U.S. Service for Precision Cleaning
Promega Growing
IPharma Services Opens New Technology Center
3M Expands Manufacturing Capability
Fort Bliss Plans Cutting-Edge Hospital
Genzyme Northborough Operations Center
GCMI Opens Medical Device Prototyping and Development Facility
USF Plans Heart Research Center with Genomics Focus
Baxter International to Open Manufacturing Facility
LGC Genomics Launches New US Genomics Services Lab
New Lab Speeds Plant Research
Purdue Drug Discovery Lab to Open in 2014
Two New High-Precision Measurement Labs Open
New Biotech Building Dedicated at University of Utah
Demolition of BioTech 3 Building to Make Way for Health Diagnostic Laboratory
Merck Accelerating Production
Freeze Drying Specialists BTL Announce New Cytotoxic Capability
NantWorks Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plant in Indiana
REST OF WORLD
BioPure Opens New Hampshire Facility
Translational Research Institute (TRI), Brisbane, Australia
Foster Wheeler Awarded Contract for Facility in Saudi Arabia
Quanticate Expands Operations in India
Sweden’s Frohe to Open New Polish Plant
Sartorius Expansion of Manufacturing and R&D
Synexus Consolidates Polish Presence with Osteomed Acquisition
Sanner Invests in Hungarian Plant
India Plans Investment in Vaccine cGMP Compliance
Covance, BML Expand Clinical Lab in Japan
Ei Expands Capabilities through KeraNetics Partnership
Chiltern Sets Up in Taiwan
Randox Opens New Manufacturing Facility in Bangalore, India
Covance Expands Japanese Lab Collaboration
GSK Funds Centre for Sustainable Chemistry in Nottingham
Amgen Invest in Dublin Plant and Create Amgen's South San Francisco Headquarters
Penn Pharma Expands Packing Capabilities
Sandoz Supplying APIs to a Cameroonian Generics Firm
Life Technologies to Expand at Scottish Site
Merck Shuttering Serono HQ
Therapure Biopharma Opens New Custom Biologics Manufacturing Wing
Kemwell Adds cGMP Pilot Plant
Mylan to Create 500 Jobs in Ireland
Baxter to Invest $1 Billion in Construction of New Plasma Products Facility in Georgia
Custom Healthcare Group Expands Services
Sanmina-SCI Suzhou, China Facility Awarded ISO 13485 Certification for Medical Devices
Boehringer Ingelheim Sets Up Asian Veterinary R&D Center in Shanghai
Wickham Laboratories to Move
Freeze Drying Experts BTL Announce New Cytotoxic Capability
Pharmacells Expanding in Stem Cell Supply
Thermo Fisher Scientific Opened a New Demonstration Lab and Training Center
Aptar Pharma's Manufacturing Facility, Navi Mumbai, India
GEA Niro Pharmaceutical Spray Drying Facility, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom
Larger World Courier Depot in Buenos Aires Offers Quadrupled Pharma Capacity
USP Plans Ghana Lab