Facility Design and Engineering

Nkarta will establish a new combined scalable NK cell therapy manufacturing facility and corporate headquarters in South San Francisco, Calif.

Sparx Therapeutics will build its first commercial manufacturing facility in Yangzhou, China, for antibody drug production.

Help prevent contamination in a facility by zone.

Yposkesi is building its second commercial facility for cell and gene therapy manufacturing at its campus on Corbeil-Essonnes, France.

VIVEbiotech has opened its new lentiviral vector manufacturing facilities in Spain, expanding capacity for lentiviral vectors for use in cell and gene therapies.

Through the acquisition, Avantor will have access to RIM’s Changzhou, China, facility, making it Avantor’s first single-use production plant in the AMEA region.

The companies are expanding their collaboration to extend the drug substance manufacturing of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine with the addition of a new manufacturing line at Lonza’s Geleen, Netherlands, site.

Digitalization of bioprocessing operations, equipment, and facilities can improve workflow and output, but maintaining data integrity is a concern.

PPD has opened its new multipurpose clinical research laboratory in Suzhou, China, which offers bioanalytical, biomarker, and vaccine sciences services for China and the global market.

Expected to be completed by 2022, the new addition is part of the Samsung Biologics’ long-term strategy to become a fully integrated global biopharmaceutical company.

The Discovery Labs has signed a foundational lease with the University of Pennsylvania Gene Therapy Program to build a new life sciences cluster in King of Prussia, Pa.

The new line can fill prefilled syringes, cartridges, and vials using ready-to-use components.

Almac Sciences is investing in the expansion of its continuous flow chemistry equipment as an additional project to its previously announced £5-million (US$7-million) laboratory expansion.

Under the terms of the agreement, Thermo Fisher will construct and operate a 44,000-ft2 cell therapy development, manufacturing, and collaboration center on UCSF's Mission Bay campus.

Univercells will introduce the intermediate capacity scale-X carbo system to NIBRT’s facility for hands-on demonstration and training in CGT.

BD’s new high-tech manufacturing facility in Zaragoza, Spain, will create up to 600 jobs by 2030.

The expansion in Le Mans, France will support growth in clinical and commercial manufacturing.

BioNTech plans to expand its global footprint by establishing its regional headquarters for southeast Asia and a new mRNA manufacturing facility in Singapore.

Lonza plans to invest approximately CHF 850 million (US$936 million) to build new state-of-the-art mammalian manufacturing facilities at its Visp, Switzerland, and Portsmouth, NH, sites.

Catalent has acquired Promethera Biosciences’ cell therapy manufacturing subsidiary, which includes a 32,400 ft2 facility in Gosselies, Belgium.

Moderna will double the space at its Moderna Technology Center in Norwood, MA, to transform it from a production and lab space into an industrial technology center.

AMRI will increase R&D and manufacturing capabilities for orphan and rare disease products.

Under the terms of the contract, Meissner will expand its Camarillo, Calif., manufacturing site by adding additional cleanroom manufacturing space, executing advanced inventory management systems, and adding support areas to supplement capacity.

ADMA will now have the ability to produce Bivigam at an expanded capacity with the same manufacturing scale, while using the same equipment, release testing assays, disposables, and labor force.

AkesoBio’s expanded manufacturing capacity, enabled by the addition of another Cytiva FlexFactory platform, will be used to meet current and future market needs in China as well as worldwide.