Welcome to another posting of ‘Industry Insight with Chester,’ a periodic round-up of news and views from around the Pharma and biopharma industries compiled by Chester Solack, Business Analyst at SAFC in Lenexa, Kansas.
Archive for the ‘Bioprocessing’ Category
Industry Insight with Chester: A Collection of Current Industry Updates
Friday, May 18th, 2012Contract Pharma Outsourcing Survey 2012
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012Contract Pharma recently released their annual Outsourcing Survey where the publication takes time to poll players in the pharma industry on hot button outsourcing topics. The survey is broken out by size of company, specialty of company and title of the responders and as a whole, it offers exceptional insight into the current landscape of outsourcing and upcoming trends. The full report can be found by clicking here.
Supply Chain Security Highligted at the Annual TIDES Event in Las Vegas
Thursday, May 10th, 2012SAFC will be onsite from May 20-23, 2012 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada for the annual TIDES Event hosted by IBC Life Sciences. We hope that you may be able to join SAFC at booth #206 and would also like to extend an invitation to a presentation at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, May 22, 2012. During this time, Senior Manufacturing Manager, Andreas Wolter will participate as a panel member for a presentation titled “The Oligo Supply Chain: How Strong is the Weakest Link?” which will focus on new developments and solutions for supply chain security.
To set up a meeting with an SAFC representative, or for more information regarding SAFC’s nucleic acid solutions, contact us here. We also invite you to fill out this survey to receive a 20% discount code on your attendee registration.
We look forward to seeing you there!
A Deeper Look Into the New CHOZN® Platform System for Recombinant Protein Production
Friday, April 13th, 2012On Wednesday, April 11th, SAFC announced the launch of the CHOZN cell platform system for biopharma producers to create and scale up high producing clones more quickly and easily. Here, SAFC Live speaks to Kevin Kayser, Associate Director of Cell Sciences and Development at SAFC, about why the platform was developed, and what it can do.
BREAKING NEWS: Sigma-Aldrich Acquires Research Organics to Strengthen Portfolio of PharmaGrade Raw Materials
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012Yesterday, Sigma-Aldrich announced the acquisition of Research Organics, a leading supplier of biochemicals for use in various bioprocessing, biotechnology and diagnostic applications. The addition means that SAFC will now be able to offer dual sourced buffers, as well as an expansion of the raw materials catalog of products. As executives for both companies noted, the acquisition has been made with an end goal of increasing quality of service and capacity to partner with customers on both standard and custom project solutions.
To read the full press release, please click below. To learn more about SAFC’s line of PharmaGrade Products, please click here.
SAFC Presents at the Upcoming ICH Q3D Metal Impurities Workshop in Bethesda, Maryland
Monday, April 2nd, 2012From April 4-5, 2012, delegates will gather at the Marriott Bethesda North Hotel in Bethesda, Maryland for the two day ICH Q3D Metal Impurities Workshop that will feature a program focused on the new limits for element impurities in drug products and how they may impact businesses in the pharma industry.
On Wednesday, April 4th at 9am, SAFC Quality Assurance Director, Patty Benson, will participate in a panel titled “Perspectives From Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) Suppliers”, along with a lineup of speakers from industry colleagues, the IPEC-Americas, CHPA and SOCMA’s Bulk Pharmaceutical Task Force (BPTF) to discuss the draft guidelines and implications data will have, as well as the impact on pharmaceuticals. Patty’s input from an API maker’s perspective will be complemented with an excipient user perspective from Janeen Skutnik-Wilkinson, Director of Quality and Regulatory Policy at Pfizer Inc. and an excipient maker perspective from David Schoneker, Director of Global Regulatory Affairs at Colorcon.
We hope to see you there to learn, network and exchange information amongst industry peers. To learn more about registration for the event, please click here. To learn more about SAFC, please click here.
SAFC at CPhI Japan 2012
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
SAFC Manager, Toru Kobayashi, accepts an award of recognition for ten years of exhibiting at the CPhI Japan event.
CPhI Japan 2012 got underway today and SAFC is onsite as an exhibitor (located at Booth H-16) and presenter. This year, the show celebrates it’s 10th anniversary and event organizers, UBM Live, took time to recognize the exhibiting companies that have been there since the beginning. SAFC is one of those companies and earlier today was recognized as part of a group of 47 exhibitors that have experienced the past ten years of CPhI Japan.
Here, SAFC Live takes a moment to talk with Toru Kobayashi, SAFC Manager for the Japan Market, about how the market has recovered from natural disaster and what the Japanese pharma, biopharma and chemicals market has in store for the future.
