Pharmaceuticals

The Manufacturer MX Awards 2019 Ceremony - Image courtesy of The Manufacturer

The Manufacturer MX Awards 2019: All the winners and reactions

Cars rolling along the production line

Have your say on the most pressing issues facing UK manufacturing in 2020

Manufacturing in the laboratory with chemicals

Industrial Data & AI

L’Oréal powers its R&D by processing 50 million pieces of data a day

GSK will have a majority share of the venture (68%). - image courtesy of Depositphotos.

GSK and Pfizer agree huge £10bn healthcare merger

The 2018 gala’s dinner chairs were Christine Bryant, Senior Vice President, Polyurethanes–North America, Covestro LLC; Karen S. Carter, Chief Inclusion Officer, The Dow Chemical Company; Bruce Chinn, President, Chevron Oronite Company LLC; Susan Ellerbusch, Chief Executive Officer, Air Liquide USA LLC; Erin N. Kane, President and Chief Executive Officer, AdvanSix Inc.; Kirsten Lund-Jurgensen, Ph.D., Executive Vice President, Pfizer Inc; and John Y. Televantos, Senior Partner, Arsenal Capital Partners.

American Institute of Chemical Engineers praises companies for inspiring female engineers

Innovate UK has up to £10m to invest in projects that develop medicine manufacturing methods - image courtesy of Depositphotos.

Shareholders at pharmaceutical giants Shire and Takeda agree £46bn takeover

Utilising 3D printing to create jigs and fixtures - image courtesy of Formlabs

Replacing machined jigs and fixtures with 3D printing

IoT technologies in the pharmaceutical sector will be worth $2.4bn (£1.7bn) by 2020 - image courtesy of Depositphotos.

Digital Transformation

IoT tech in pharma sector to be worth £1.7bn by 2020

US engineers have invented a ‘4D printing’ method for a smart gel – image courtesy of Rutgers.US engineers have invented a ‘4D printing’ method for a smart gel – image courtesy of Rutgers.

Digital Transformation

3D printed smart gel for targeted drug delivery invented

Pfizer will increase manufacturing in the US. Image courtesy of Flickr - Kojach

Pfizer profits get huge boost from US tax cuts

Smart factories are set to improve productivity and labor cost hugely over the next 5 years - image courtesy of APS

Smart factories set to contribute up to £1.13 trillion to the global economy