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l-BN-44-47_Masters 12/31/13 9:59 AM Page 46 46 January 2014 Tablets & Capsules many, that it will dedicate to developing, testing, and demonstrating process equipment for continuous production of pharmaceuticals. Catalent acquires Relthy SOMERSET, NJ—Catalent Pharma Solutions purchased Relthy Labo ratórios, São Paulo, Brazil, to expand its South American softgel business. The Relthy plant, with a production capacity of about 2 billion capsules per year, becomes Calalent's eleventh softgel facility in its global network, which expanded into China in March 2013 with softgel and clinical trial supply services. Rondo-Pak opens plant in San Juan NORRISTOWN, PA—Folding carton supplier Rondo-Pak opened a 40,800-square-foot manufacturing and distribution facility in San Juan, Puerto Rico, which will serve customers throughout the greater Caribbean region. ABC Labs consolidates Morse Laboratories COLUMBIA, MO—Analytical Bio-Chemistry (ABC) Laboratories has moved operations of its subsidiary Morse Laboratories of Sacramento, CA, to ABC's Missouri campus, where it added 10,000 square feet of lab space in 2010. The company will stop using the Morse brand. Cambridge Major Labs, AAIPharma merge GERMANTOWN, WI—API man ufacturer Cambridge Major Laboratories and AAIPharma Services, a provider of pharmaceutical analytical testing, product development, and manufacturing services plan to merge. The combined company will provide process and solid-state chemistry, API manufacturing, formulation development, analytical development and testing services, clinical and commercial solid dosage manufacturing, packaging, and stability testing. IMCD dedicates lab to pharma ROTTERDAM, Netherlands— Excipients and specialty chemicals distributor IMCD Group opened its first pharmaceutical laboratory. Located in Huerth, Germany, the facility has 120 square meters of laboratory, office, and conference space, and will be used for solid-dose development, tablet coating, and the development of suspensions and syrups. United Drug consolidates packaging services under Sharp name DUBLIN, Ireland—United Drug, a provider of healthcare services, renamed itself UDG Healthcare, and will offer all its packaging services under Sharp Packaging Services. The change will enable the company to market its services better to international healthcare companies. Sharp Packaging Services, Allentown, PA, provides contract packaging to pharma and biotech firms with facilities the UK, Belgium, Netherlands, and USA. Malvern Instruments acquires NanoSight WEBINARS Method Development, including Design of Experiments (DoE) in Dissolution Testing Vivian Gray, V.A. Gray Consulting and Dissolution Technologies, Presenter Matthew Knopp, Editor of Tablets & Capsules, Moderater Dissolution methods of the modern pharmaceutical laboratory should exemplify the principles of Quality by Design (QbD). In this webinar, you'll learn how to develop discriminating dissolution methods that lead to clinically relevant specifications and meet global requirements. This presentation will also teach you method development principles based on BCS of immediate-release formulations and will discuss f2. It will also discuss the challenges of poorly soluble compounds and introduce DoE as a tool for challenging the discriminatory power of the method. Tuesday, June 3, 2014 MALVERN, UK—Malvern Instruments acquired nano-particle characterization company NanoSight, Amesbury, UK. Its instrumentation and software rapidly and simultaneously analyze multiple parameters and characterize many different types of nano-scale particles. Study: DRcaps reliable for delayed release products MORRISTOWN, NJ—Capsugel published the results of a scintigraphic in vivo study that demonstrate that its DRcaps capsules begin release in a mean time of 52 minutes and completely release ingredients in a mean time of 72 minutes after ingestion. Their acid resistance makes the hypromellose capsules well suited to delivering probiotics and enzymes. 12:00 PM (Noon) – 2:00 PM EST Only $99. Registration fee is non-refundable after the live event. www.tabletscapsules.com tabletscapsules .com www.