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Novartis workers strike to forestall plant closure
Novartis ( $NVS ) is suffering a labor whiplash after its announcement last month that it would cut 2,000 jobs. In Nyon, Switzerland, which stands to lose about 320 of those jobs, employees ceased
Woodcock: More predictable manufacturing may ease regulations
Drug manufacturing experts from the 1950s would have no trouble recognizing today's manufacturing processes, according to the FDA's Janet Woodcock. But that will change as batch processing gives way
MIT's Hockfield reports worrisome lack of interest in manufacturing
MIT president Susan Hockfield recently described as "worrisome" the responses she gets when she asks about manufacturing in the U.S.: "Half the people I talk to say, ‘This is the most important
PAT, QbD spur continuous processing
The time has come to dispatch batch processing; welcome to pharma's continuous-processing era. That appears to be the consensus from last week's Interphex trade show. Use of process analytical
UK pushes continuous manufacturing
The University of Strathclyde aims to give drug manufacturing the greatest of gifts: continuous processing. It hopes to escort the pharma industry out of the batch era through a UK initiative to
Bath may ease reactor channel clogs
MIT researchers find there may yet be hope for drugmakers to depart the batch-processing era for the heralded continuous-processing age. An ultrasound bath may be able to prevent the channel clogging
Pfizer, GSK present at FDA's continuous processing symposium
The FDA reiterated its belief that the use of continuous processing in drug-making will yield an improvement in quality over batch processing. At a recent internal symposium, the regulator indicated
Tablet-making makeover a U.K. effort
Continuous processing, rather than batch, may be the future of tablet-making. A U.K. group is targeting efficiency gains in manufacturing to effect cost savings big enough to help U.K. companies
