Facility Design and Engineering

The drug particle engineering and nanotechnology company offers a nanotechnology platform that can revive failed drugs in the pharma pipeline.

Avara Pharmaceutical Services acquired Sandoz’s sterile manufacturing facility for injectable medicines in Boucherville, Quebec, Canada.

The company is increasing manufacturing capacity at its Copenhagen, Denmark facility with the addition of six new bioreactors.

FDA grants support US research in continuous manufacturing monitoring and control techniques for bio/pharmaceutical manufacturing at Rutgers, MIT, and Georgia Tech.

The agency issued a warning letter to Canadian API manufacturer, Les Produits Chimiques B.G.R, citing cGMP violations at its API facility in Pointe-Claire, Quebec.

The company broke ground on its $200-million, 120,000-ft2 biomanufacturing plant in West Greenwich, RI.

Moderna’s new manufacturing plant in Norwood, MA gives the company capacity for preclinical and Phase I and II clinical manufacturing for its mRNA development candidates, including personalized cancer vaccines.

The expansion at the company’s Gillingham, UK, site, worth EUR 9 million (approximately US$10.5 million), will improve the company’s distribution capabilities.

Modern technologies, including Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things, offer opportunities to increase biopharmaceutical manufacturing efficiency.

The company has completed the first phase of expansion at its headquarters in Freiburg, Germany, in anticipation of increasing demand as cell and gene therapies approach commercialization.

The contract development and manufacturing company has received an additional approval from Health Canada to manufacture monoclonal antibody drug substance at its first plant in Icheon, South Korea.

Single-use technologies have become increasingly prevalent in final fill/finish operations for biologics.

The company will provide the first FlexFactory manufacturing platform for cell therapy manufacturing.

Aseptic fill/finish is crucial in biopharma manufacturing and is optimized through automated technology.

Higher cell titers and cell densities have posed a challenge to cell harvesting, a crucial step in biologics manufacturing.

Ingenza, in partnership with the University of Dundee and Drochaid Research Services, will work on a project to recycle CO2 emissions from bioprocessing plants to serve as feedstock and energy inputs.

This marks the third FDA approval for the company’s second biomanufacturing plant in Incheon, Korea.

The gene therapy company is expected to invest $55 million in a new manufacturing facility that will produce therapies for rare neurological genetic diseases.

The company is increasing its cell culture media production capacity at its facilities in Pasching, Austria, and Logan, Utah.

More published data and initial regulatory approvals are needed to drive adoption of continuous bio-manufacturing.

The company is launching a new pre-fabricated, ready-to-run manufacturing facility that is expected to significantly decrease the production timeline for viral vector-based therapeutics.

The new facility, to be built in Toronto, Canada, will significantly increase capacity for pediatric and booster vaccines.

The biopharmaceutical firm has chosen Rhode Island as the site of its next-generation biomanufacturing plant, which will offer flexibility, speed, and efficiency.

The new 300,000-square-foot facility is considered the largest dedicated cell and gene therapy manufacturing facility with fully integrated services.

The company plans to install 4000-L disposable bioreactors from ABEC at its new commercial manufacturing facility in Wuxi city, China.