> Norway's Algeta has opened a manufacturing facility at the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) in Kjeller, Norway, to manufacture Xofigo, radium Ra 223 dichloride, the drug for castration-resistant prostate cancer which Bayer will commercialize. Release
> Hermes Pharma says it plant in Wolfratshausen, Germany, recently passed a routine FDA inspection. Release
> Indian pharmaceutical companies filed 417 Drug Master Files (DMFs) with the U.S. FDA in 2012, compared with 404 in the previous year. Report
> Polymer Group will build a plant in Nanhai, China to expand capacity of advanced chemical bond products for in the region. Report
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