Supply Planning: Are Foreign-Trade Zones the Right Tool?
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Amid evolving trade policies, foreign-trade zones are a potential tool to support companies’ supply-chain strategies, but how can they be used?

Primary Packaging: The Moves and Capacity Additions
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What have been the major moves—mergers and acquisitions and capacity additions in primary packaging? The latest developments and trends.

CDMOs/CMOs: The Key Moves in 2026
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What have been the key moves—capacity additions and acquisitions by CDMOs thus far in 2026 and what may be on the horizon?

What’s Trending in Excipients
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Excipients play a crucial role in formulation development, but what barriers to innovation in excipients exist and how is the industry addressing?

Pharma M&A: The Deals & the Molecules
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What have been the key mergers and acquisitions by the large and mid-sized pharma companies thus far in 2026? DCAT Value Chain Insights evaluates the deal-making and the molecules involved. 

Manufacturing Strategies: AstraZeneca
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AstraZeneca’s strategy to increase its revenues in the US is accompanied by select investments in China on an R&D and manufacturing basis, with the latest, plans for a biomanufacturing JV.

Generics/Biosimilars Outlook: Major Patent Cliff Looms Large
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An estimated $500 billion in branded innovator drugs face generics/biosimilar exposure between 2026 and 2032. Which companies and products face the potential greatest impact?

Sanofi’s New CEO Highlights Pipeline Prioritization
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In her first earnings report since becoming CEO of Sanofi in late April, Belén Garijo laid out an accelerated transformation roadmap for the company that focuses on the company’s commercial strengths but also the need for R&D and pipeline improvements.

A New Round in US Pharma Tariffs: What’s at Play?
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President Trump announced this week a phased plan to impose tariffs on imported generic drugs into the US as a means to encourage US-based production of generics, and a previously announced executive action for tariffs on patented drugs is coming due. 

In Vivo Cell Therapies: Solving Mfg Obstacles?
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Several bio/pharma majors are making a play in in vivo cell therapies with recent $1-billion-plus acquisitions with an aim for both clinical and manufacturing benefits. Are in vivo cell therapies the up-and-coming segment in advanced therapies?