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Tablets & Capsules May 2019 47 packaging commercial activity within the region. The Process Equipment Manu- facturers' Association (PEMA), Falls Church, VA, elected Rob Ward as PEMA president for 2019. Ward is president of US operations at Russell Finex. Rob Hendricks, director of sales at Bunting Magnetics, will serve as vice president, and Birte Mathis, chief executive officer at Jacob Tub- ing, will serve as treasurer. The asso- ciation also elected Jason McDaniel, president and chief operating officer at French Oil Machinery, Julie Whitten, manager of Piab USA's vacuum conveying division, and John Winski, director of sales for the Americas at Coperion K-Tron Pit- man, and Andy Forrester, director of sales at Kice Industries, as new board members. Siegfried Drost, managing direc- tor of sales at Uhlmann Pac- Systeme, a pharmaceutical packaging supplier, Laupheim, Germany, has retired after 25 years of service at the company. He is succeeded by Michael Mrachacz, who is currently responsible for Uhlmann's customer support and services. expands the range of drug candi- dates that can be formulated using th e co m p an y' s OD T p latfo rm , including analgesics, anti-allergy treatments, and anti-infectives. PCI to expand high potency tableting and powder modification capacity TREDEGAR, Wales—PCI Pharma Services, a full-service CDMO, will expand its flagship manufacturing center in Tredegar, Wales, doubling its high potency tableting capacity and increasing throughput to support recent and anticipated product l a u n c h e s . T h e d e d i c a t e d c o n - tained-manufacturing facility has pro- cessed more than 60 highly potent products since opening in 2013. Azelis acquires Chemroy LUXEMBOURG—Azelis, a lead- ing distributor of specialty chemi- cals and food ingredients, acquired rival Chemroy, Brampton, ON. The acquisition strengthens Azelis's position in the coating, adhesives, construction, ink, food, pharmaceu- tical, nutraceutical, and personal care industries. Sterling Pharma acquires CiVentiChem NORTHUMBERLAND, UK— Sterling Pharma Solutions, a CDMO specializing in small-molecule API development and manufacture, acquired CiVentiChem's US facility in Cary, NC. The facility, located in the Research Triangle Park, will allow Sterling to offer a local pres- ence to its US clients and enhance its chemistry development capabilities to support pre-clinical and ear- ly-phase clinical supply. ExciPact certifies Cleveland Valtris facility BRUSSLES, Belgium—ExciPact, an international non-profit organiza- tion that provides voluntary third- party GMP certification to excipient manufacturers, certified Valtris Spe- cialty Chemical's manufacturing site in Cleveland, OH. The certification demonstrates that the site manufac- tures metal stearates according to ExciPact's GMP standards. people news C a t a l e n t P h a r m a S o l u t i o n s appointed Kay Schmidt as senior vice president of technical opera- tions. In this role, Schmidt will lead a team that will focus on improving project management efforts, includ- ing new product launches, techni- cal transfers, engineering projects, and customer engagements, as well as manage the company's environ- mental, health, security, and safety p r o c e s s e s . S c h m i d t j o i n e d t h e CDMO in 2009 and has held sev- eral leadership roles in product development across multiple drug delivery dosage forms. U S P h a r m a c o p e i a ( U S P ) awarded Yuwei Lu the organiza- tion's first Fellowship for Advance- ment in Pharmaceutical Sciences. The fellowship is designed to sup- port the next generation of scien- tists focusing on medicine quality and advances in the science of med- icine performance testing. Lu is a third-year student pursuing a PhD in pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy (UMSOP). Her research is focused on biologics formulation and process development. Lu will receive up to $100,000 to conduct her research at UMSOP and will be advised by Will Brown, PhD, a senior scientific liaison for USP's General Chapters division. Prelimi- nary results from her research will be made available in 2020. PCI Pharma Services appointed Serge Dupuis as its senior vice presi- dent and chief financial officer (CFO). He joins the organization from CSP Technologies where he held the role of CFO. Uhlmann Packaging Systems, a pharmaceutical packaging equipment supplier, named Kevin Thompson as regional sales manager for the South-Central US. In this role, Thompson will direct all healthcare advertiser index A Ametek Brookfield 8 B Bosch 3 K Key International 6 Kikusui USA 1 L Lonza 5 M Modular Packaging Systems 23 N Natoli Cover 4 Nilfisk 7 S Suheung 11 T Techceuticals 17 Tri-Star Technologies Cover 2