Lonza will provide manufacturing for Alector’s Phase I drug candidates for neurodegenerative diseases from its Switzerland site, which is expected to be operational by mid-2020.
Bringing together the food industry’s know-how and pharma’s manufacturing expertise, the new joint venture from Lonza and Chr. Hansen is positioned to pioneer the live biotherapeutic products space – addressing medical needs not met with ‘conventional’...
Lonza Group AG has predicted it will generate annual revenue of CHF7.5bn ($7.9bn) by 2022, citing recent acquisition Capsugel and its new Visp-based Ibex manufacturing service as drivers.
Lonza expects to complete its $5.5bn (€5.2bn) takeover of Capsugel SA in the next few days having secured approval from competition authorities around the world.
Vaxart says its tablet delivery platform has simplified vaccine production so significantly it may bring manufacturing currently contracted to Lonza back in-house.
Lonza has launched a reformulated CHO media that it says supports the growth of higher density cultures and is easier to filter than currently available products.
Lonza signed a flurry of biopharma-related deals and launched a number of drug industry services in the final quarter of 2014 as its efforts to focus on pharma intensified.
Lonza saw profits and capacity utilisation improve in the first half of 2014 with new pharma and biopharma supply contracts and ongoing restructuring being the key drivers.
Increased demand for mammalian technologies will boost Lonza further when a new Swiss facility comes online offering “unique” complete development and manufacturing ADC services, the firm says.
The end of Lonza’s biosimilar joint venture with Teva will not affect manufacturing capacity, the firm says, as it reports a drop in overall revenue for 2013.
Lonza has signed a five year deal to provide exclusive biologics development and manufacturing services for biotech firms within Index Ventures portfolio.
Big Pharma interest in antibody drug conjugates (ADC) hit another high this week with Roche ,Novartis and AstraZeneca each announcing investments that boost their ability to develop and manufacture these small-molecule monoclonal antibody (mAb) drug...
Switzerland-based life sciences supplier Lonza says it will invest CHF10m (€8m) to expand a Singapore plant that is part of its custom biomanufacturing business.
Lonza is seeing increased capacity utilisation and project pipelines in custom manufacturing but warned more stringent regulatory approval is creating volatility.
This week Lonza took over the reigns of two new US business units
from Cambrex after completing the largest acquisition in its
company history and also announced a capability expansion at its
Czech Republic site.
Contract manufacturer Lonza has completed its acquisition of two
Cambrex subsidiaries, research bioproducts and microbial
biopharmaceutical, in a move that is fuelled by its strategic move
into biopharmaceuticals.
Swiss chemicals firm and contract manufacturer Lonza has announced
18 per cent rise in net profit in 2006 rising to CHF 222m (€137.4),
fuelled by its strategic move into biopharmaceuticals.
Swiss custom manufacturing firm Lonza has entered into a joint
venture with investment management company Bio*One Capital to built
a $250m (€210m) large-scale mammalian cell culture plant in
Singapore, underlying Lonza's confidence...
Swiss chemicals firm and contract manufacturer Lonza fulfilled its
promise of stronger financial results in the first half of 2005,
with profits coming in at the lower end of the forecast range, but
still on target, reports Phil Taylor.
Lonza has started a SF 14 million (€9m) expansion of its biologics
manufacturing facility in Slough, UK, in response to what it said
was increasing demand for mammalian cell production for clinical
trials, reports Phil Taylor.
Swiss life-science company Lonza announced on Tuesday that it is to
strengthen the production of oligonucleotides - an emerging new
class of therapeutics consisting of short nucleic acid chains
interfering in the processing of genetic...
