Facility Design and Engineering

AGC Biologics has completed an expansion at its Copenhagen, Denmark, site, which doubles its bioreactor capacity for mammalian-based cell culture.

FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies CEO Lars Petersen highlights the company’s strategic goals and meeting market demand for mammalian cell culture capacity.

This new facility will allow AstraZeneca to offer full manufacturing processing for antibody drug conjugates.

ADC manufacturing facilities are requiring more stringent containment requirements as well as advanced analytical detection.

Memel Biotech aims to offer a range of services from discovery through to formulation for preclinical through to late-stage clinical and commercial production of advanced therapies.

With the Vacaville, Calif., site acquisition, Lonza gains one of the largest biologics manufacturing sites for mammalian cell-based therapeutics.

Daiichi Sankyo is investing approximately €1 billiion (US$1.08 billion) to expand its Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm, Germany, site for ADC development and production.

Boehringer Ingelheim is investing €120 million (US$131 million) into its Koropi, Greece site to expand production for new therapeutics.

Novo Nordisk will invest more than DKK 16 billion (US$2.3 billion) to expand its production facilities in Chartres, France.

TAU Systems plans to establish TAU Labs, a new next-generation, laser-driven plasma accelerator laboratory, in Carlsbad, Calif.

MilliporeSigma has expanded its biosafety testing laboratories in Shanghai, China, with the completion of new lab space at its new €29 million (US$43 million) Biologics Testing Center.

Single-use technologies provide a barrier between operators and drug products, allowing for sterility and personnel safety in manufacturing.

How can sustainability and zero-carbon initiatives be achieved?

As oligo manufacturers scale up production from lab-scale to clinical and commercial scales, they may require volumes of hazardous materials that drive additional facility design considerations.

As part of a $30 million investment, Aragen is setting up a new biologics manufacturing facility in Bangalore, India.

Wheeler plans to use the facility to bolster its mission in helping fledgling biotech innovators and startups accelerate their development at an equitable price.

The 65,000-square-foot facility is designed with the capacity and capability to help scale the next generation of CGTs for human trials and beyond.

The construction of Gritgen’s GMP facility strictly adheres to the global current GMP (CGMP) standards and complies with the regulatory guidelines of authoritative agencies including the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA), FDA, and the European Medicines Agency (EMA).

The steady rise in popularity of gene therapies and other biologics is the underlying reason for the growing importance of aseptic manufacturing processes in the biopharmaceutical industry.

With the two new GMP-grade mRNA manufacturing sites in Germany, MilliporeSigma can now offer fully integrated mRNA services.

The Novo Nordisk Foundation will invest up to DKK 950 million (€127 million, US$136 million) in a new cell therapy manufacturing facility in Lyngby, Denmark.

FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies has finished its new viral vector gene therapy manufacturing facility in Darlington, United Kingdom.

Illumina’s new solutions center in Bengaluru, India, will expand access to genomics in the country.

Bristol Myers Squibb has joined Cellares’ Technology Adoption Partnership program just as Cellares launches operations as an integrated development and manufacturing organization.

The expanded operations will also support the start of proline/alanine/serine (PAS)-nomacopan clinical trials in geographic atrophy (GA).

The launch of Alpha Teknova’s new manufacturing facility in Hollister, Calif., increases its capacity for custom reagents for life sciences applications.

The new facility is set to utilize and extend SCG's capabilities in advanced cell therapy manufacturing and off-the-shelf human-induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (iPSC) technology.

MilliporeSigma has invested $25 million to expand its cell culture media production facility in Lenexa, Kan.

The goal for Upperton is to become fully operational by Q4 of 2023 for development and non-GMP manufacturing and a target start of GMP operations in January 2024.

German manufacturer metabion is conducting a multi-million euro expansion of its oligonucleotide manufacturing capacity in Munich East.