Products and Services

CDMO Catalent has announced its acquisition of particle size reduction specialist Micron Technologies, which offers micronization, milling, and particle characterization services for pharmaceutical products, including inhalation powders. Catalent notes that it offers development through to commercial manufacturing for inhaled products, including potent compounds. … [Read more...] about Catalent acquires Micron Technologies

US-based AirWare Labs says that it has filed patent applications for an intranasal drug delivery system that will include "AirWare Labs' patent-pending disposable sealed cartridge and patent-pending nasal insert system with insufflation plugins, both of which can be filled with medication in powder form." The company currently markets a line of disposable nasal … [Read more...] about Company files patent applications for novel intranasal delivery system

Danish instrument manufacturer Ametek Test & Calibration Instruments says that it has worked with "a leading pharmaceutical manufacturer" to develop a semi-automated tester that "detects the firing load and valve breakdown load of one-shot, pressurized MDI canisters." The company's announcement says, "Previously there was no known dedicated testing solution for … [Read more...] about Ametek announces availability of MDI tester

Texas-based Mystic Pharmaceuticals has announced that its new Arrowfish intranasal delivery system is now available. The platform, which incorporates Mystic's VersiDoser and VRx2 blister systems, can deliver either liquid or dry powder formulations, in either mono- or multi-dose versions, and can be customized for use with a particular drug or biologic. Mystic CEO … [Read more...] about Mystic Pharmaceuticals launches new intranasal delivery platform

North Carolina-based Cirrus Pharmaceuticals has announced that it will be investing in a new flexible cGMP suite at its facility in Research Triangle Park, NC and will offer new manufacturing services beginning next year. In July 2013, Cirrus announced that it had been acquired by Kemwell Biopharma. The company currently offers a number of analytical and development … [Read more...] about Cirrus Pharmaceuticals to offer inhalation manufacturing services

CDMO Irvine Pharmaceutical Services has announced that it will open a new 115,000 sq ft analytical facility in Hangzhou, China, the company said. The Hangzhou location should be fully operational in early 2015. While Irvine's California facilities offer a number of inhalation and intranasal product analytical testing services, the only OINDP-related service the … [Read more...] about Irvine Pharmaceuticals opens facility in China

Computer aided engineering softwared company CD-adapco has released STAR-CCM+ v9.06, with increased accuracy and faster set-up. The software is useful to inhaler and other device designers for realistic modeling of the behavior of aerosols in the device or drug deposition in the lungs. CD-adapco Senior VP of Product Management Jean-Claude Ercolanelli said, “We want … [Read more...] about CD-adapco introduces latest release of CFD software

A start-up company called Amiko has launched a campaign on crowd funding site Indiegogo to raise money for manufacturing of its monitoring devices for a variety of dry powder inhalers, the company said. The stated fundraising goal is $50,000. Although a press release says that the device is wearable, it is unclear from the company's marketing materials exactly how it … [Read more...] about Company launches crowd funding effort for DPI monitoring devices