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50 January 2020 Tablets & Capsules executive officer Marc Funk from the company in January for personal rea- sons. Albert Baehny, chairman of the board of directors, will lead the com- pany on an interim basis until the CEO position is permanently filled, a nd b o a r d me mb e r C h r i s t o ph Maeder has been appointed lead independent director. Samuel Ricchezza, former presi- dent of WellSpring Pharma Services, has joined Taiwan-based CDMO Bora Pharmaceuticals as president of North American operations and will be responsible for local acqui- sitions. Ricchezza previously held senior positions at Patheon and AAI- Pharma (Alcami). C harles Ross & Son, a mix- ing equipment manufacturer based in Hauppauge, NY, has appointed Ken Langhorn as the company's vice president of sales. Langhorn joined the company in 1998 as a lab assis- tant and has since held positions as product manager and, most recently, technical director. Romaco Group, a pharmaceuti- cal equipment manufacturer based in Karlsruhe, Germany, has appointed M arkus K impel as g roup chief financial officer as well as managing director of Romaco Pharmatechnik. In both positions, Kimpel succeeds Carsten Strenger, who left the com- pany at the end of 2019. Romaco has also appointed Pietro Tomasi as vice president of sales and service. He succeeds Gary Kedley who held the position since 2006 and retired at the end of 2019. Maruho Hatsujyo Innovations, a supplier of blister machinery head- quartered in Norwell, MA, has hired Benjamin Voelcker as applications engineer. In this role, Voelcker will be responsible for package design, sales engineering, market relations, and industry application trends. merge to create a global high-value ingredients and solutions company for the food and beverage, home and personal care, and health and well- ness markets. The companies' com- bined portfolios and capabilities will allow the merged entity to respond more quickly to customer demands and increasing consumer preferences for natural, healthier products. Korsch opens certified pre- owned equipment facility BER LIN, Germany— Korsch, a tablet press manufacturer, has ded- icated a new facility on its Berlin campus to support the expansion of its global certified pre-owned equipment program. The company restores pre-owned machines using genuine Korsch OEM parts, result- ing in new machine performance at a significantly lower price point. To complement this program, Korsch America, South Easton, M A, has expanded its site to include four ser- vice bays to support certified pre- owned equipment projects for North and South America. people news The IPEC Foundation, Arlington, VA, presented Calvin Sun the Ralph Shangraw Memorial Award at the 2019 A APS PharmSci 360 annual meeting in San Antonio, TX. Sun is professor and director of gradu- ate studies for the Department of Phar maceutics in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Min- nesota and a member of Tablets & Cap- sules' editorial advisory board. The award recognizes Sun's independent research demonstrating the power of integrating material science and engineering to design robust tab- let formulations and solve manufac- turing problems. Sun's research has involved improving the understand- ing of powder flowability and tablet- ability of APIs and excipients. Lonza, a pharmaceutical CDMO b a s e d i n B a s e l S w i t z e r l a n d , announced the departure of chief of the Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, awarded $4,000 scholarships to five students at two-year PMMI Partner School prog rams. T his year 's recipients are Ethan Lor and Simeon Uzor of Hennepin Technical College, Julia Magnuson and Isaac Regier of Alex- andria Technical Community Col- lege, and Raymond Lyuu of Central Piedmont Community College. To qualify for the scholarships, students are required to have a career plan in packaging and processing machin- ery manufacturing and a record of past awards, industry involvement through internship and career devel- opment opportunities, and a GPA of 3.0 or higher. In other news, PMMI has moved its headquarters from Reston, VA, to Herndon, VA. The new address is 12930 Worldgate Dr., Suite 200, Herndon, VA 20170. PCI expands Tredegar facility P H I L A D E L P H I A , PA — P C I Pharma Ser vices, a pharmaceuti- cal and biopharmaceutical CDMO, has beg un expanding its facilit y in Tredegar, Wales, to enhance its high-potency drug manufacturing and development capabilities, includ- ing clinical and commercial supply. The expansion will extend the com- pany's contained oral solid dosage manufact uring facilit y, doubling the large-scale granulation and flu- id-bed drying capacity, and create additional space for high-potency drug handling capabilities, additional analytical capacity, and a small-scale processing area. The new space is expected to be completed by late 2021. The Tredegar expansion fol- lows the recently completed expan- sion to PCI's Rockford, IL, facility to include more than 30,000 square feet for specialt y dr ug products, including four high-potency com- pound suites and three new second- ary packaging areas. DuPont to merge with IFF N E W YO R K , N Y— D u Po n t Nutrition & Biosciences and Inter- national Flavors & Fragrances (IFF), Wilmington, DE, have agreed to