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Trends in Manufacturing May 2025 PharmTech.com
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harmaceutical Technology® Group interfaced
with nearly a dozen companies at the annual
INTERPHEX conference in New York City on
April 1 and 2, 2025, and while one of the over-
arching topics may have been the tariff policies of
United States President Donald Trump's administra-
tion—in which there were new developments during
the event—many of the interviewees over those two
days were eager to share their businesses' latest in-
novations in manufacturing and how those might fit
into the industry at large.
Most people i nter v iewed d id have at least one
eye on what the Trump administration's decisions
m ig ht mea n i n ter m s of out sou rci ng, a s best ex-
pressed by David Loula, global product director at
ITT Engineered Valves.
"If you are procuring components [from] or some
of your supply chain is based, for example, in China,
you've seen a recent increase in tarif fs on compo-
nents coming out of China that has a direct impact
on our costs, and it's something that we have to de-
cide as to whether we're going to pass those costs
a long to our customer base, or we're going to eat
t hose costs ourselves," Lou la sa id (1). " You don't
a lways k now if t he steel components t hat you're
buying have metals that were sourced in one of the
target countries. So that one's a little trickier to fig-
ure out, but we're working closely with our supply
Companies Reveal Their
Next Moves in Manufacturing
Patrick Lavery
In discussions at INTERPHEX 2025, company representatives seized upon
several common themes, most notably safety, sustainability, and the increasing utility of automation.
