> U.K. drugmakers GlaxoSmithKline ($GSK) and AstraZeneca ($AZN) will join a research project led by Cambridge University's Institute of Manufacturing to develop new packaging technologies for more personalized, faster and cheaper drug delivery. Story
> The state government in Chhattisgarh, India, is looking into public/private partnerships with drugmakers for herbal medicine manufacturing. Story
> Hospira is recalling 24,100 syringes of the anesthesia amidate. Notice
> Almac Group, the Ireland-based CDMO, has bought Athlone-based Arran Chemical Company and will integrate its manufacturing operations into its large-scale intermediates operations. Release