Products and Services

Indian conglomerate SRF Limited has acquired DuPont’s Dymel pharmaceutical propellants for $20 million in cash, according to reports in the Indian press. SRF, which already has two technical grade HFA-134a plants, plans to build its… Read more . . .

RDD Online and Aptar Pharma have announced that registration is now open for Respiratory Drug Delivery (RDD) Europe 2015, to be held May 5-8, 2015 in Antibes, France. This will be the 10th anniversary of… Read more . . .

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… Read more . . .

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… Read more . . .

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… Read more . . .

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… Read more . . .

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… Read more . . .

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… Read more . . .

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… Read more . . .