Facility Design and Engineering

The expansion will allow Ashland to focus on clinical study projects and commercialization activities.

Homology Medicines discusses how the clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company met its need for supply of adeno-associated virus vectors.

The site will house development and GMP production capacities for cell and gene therapies, next-generation vaccines, and biopharmaceuticals, to support clients from early clinical trials through commercialization.

The expansion, to be completed in April 2021 aims to increase the CDMO’s viral-vector production capacity in Spain.

The new facility is part of Bristol Myers Squibb’s investment into the clinical and commercial manufacturing of cell therapies for patients with aggressive hematological cancers.

Through the acquisition, Catalent will establish pDNA development and manufacturing services at its Rockville, MD, facility and will gain Delphi’s team of R&D and genetic engineering scientists, technicians, and regulatory specialists.

The company has completed the expansion of its laboratory facilities to accommodate the development of APIs.

The new business services site will house the company’s North American human resource operations, along with certain finance and information technology teams.

The company recently installed a fully validated visual inspection system that uses artificial intelligence in an automated inspection machine.

WuXi STA will acquire the site’s operations and assets, including the plant, equipment, and workforce.

The site, which is set to be operational in three years, will feature disposable technology and advanced technology filling lines to produce 90 million vials and 50 million pre-filled syringes a year.

The new US offices will give the company the ability to support its US-based customers on site while continuing to collaborate with its global team.

The 40,000-ft.2 facility will feature eight cleanrooms with configurations for the production of cell and viral vector products.

The 17,000 m2 facility will serve as a process development and manufacturing site for Chinese companies developing medicines as well as multinationals with manufacturing requirements in China.

Acorda’s Chelsea, MA facility will serve as a global center of excellence in the Catalent network for spray-dried dispersion and dry powder encapsulation and packaging.

The company plans to expand its global production capacity across six existing manufacturing facilities in Europe and the United States, as well as a new manufacturing facility in the US.

The new facility, which will be operated by Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies, will provide large-scale cell-culture manufacturing of bulk drug substance with 8 x 20,000-L bioreactors.

The new facility, to be located in Boston, MA, will contain experimental and analytical equipment for viral vector and advanced therapy process development and will expand the CDMO’s manufacturing capacity.

The company will expand its clinical supply chain services by establishing two new facilities in Rheinfelden and Weil am Rhein, Germany.

The company will expand the site to include six new containment isolators and a product development manufacturing laboratory.

The company is investing in expansion at four sites in the United States, United Kingdom, and Italy, which will include construction of new facilities and addition of sterile and lyophilized filling lines.

The company has received $500 million in funding from Sino Biopharmaceutical for further development, capacity expansion, and manufacturing of CoronaVac, its COVID-19 vaccine candidate.

The company will expand its micronization abilities for highly potent drug compounds through this investment.

The virtual showroom will provide real-time construction updates, various specs, and services that its new super plant, Plant 4, will offer upon completion.

Honeywell’s project team has remotely and efficiently migrated Richter Gedeon’s process control system with limited onsite staffing and resources.

Set to be operational by the first quarter of 2022, the 140,000-ft2 facility will feature up to six 2000-L, single-use bioreactor systems along with additional harvest and purification equipment to produce up to 100 commercial batches annually.

The expansion will include new suites for the development and clinical manufacturing of drug product intermediates and drug products and cGMP suites for early-phase cGMP manufacture.

The added space will house a portion of its PVC, polyurethane, silicone, and additional plastic tubing products, as well as its AdvantaPure products.

Originally announced in March 2020, the acquired facility will be Bora’s first North American manufacturing facility and will serve as its North American headquarters.

The expansion is part of a new expansion initiative aimed at increasing flexibility, efficiency, and cost-effective production.