Facility Design and Engineering

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.

ISPE announced BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Shire, Vetter, and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals as FOYA Category winners.

A different perspective on controlling fixed costs of biomanufacturing, based on know-how from other industries, provides a competitive edge, says the CEO of Samsung BioLogics.

JLL, a real estate and investment management firm, recently released a new report on three trends shaping labs for the future of life sciences R&D.

The contract development and manufacturing organization has entered it first manufacturing contract worth $148 million for its recently completed Plant 3 facility.

The new training center, the Jefferson Institute for Bioprocessing, will prepare engineering students and industry professionals for the field of biologics manufacturing.

Amgen plans to invest approximately $300 million in a new biomanufacturing plant in the United States.

Layout and supply details must be considered when implementing a fully disposable biopharmaceutical manufacturing process.

Single-use technologies are starting to gain ground as capacity needs change, but industrywide adoption remains low.

BioPharm International asked Andrew Bulpin, head of Process Solutions at MilliporeSigma, about the end-of-life options for disposable components of biopharmaceutical single-use systems.

The contract development and manufacturing organization has invested £30-million (US$42 million) at its Dundalk, Ireland site to offer expanded clinical trial services.

The company relocated its headquarters to Riverview, Florida.

GE Healthcare will equip Cellular Biomedicine Group's cell therapy manufacturing facility in Shanghai, China, with its FlexFactory single-use platform, designed to speed up cell therapy manufacturing timelines.

Sartorius Stedim Biotech will equip Abzena’s contract development and manufacturing facilities in Bristol, PA, and San Diego, CA, with single-use equipment and scale-up technologies.

Athenex is moving forward with the construction of a new 320,000-square-foot pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Dunkirk, NY, and has hired the German engineering firm, M+W, to design and construct the facility.

AptarGroup’s Landfill Free Certification program addresses the issue of waste production from pharmaceutical manufacturing processes by prompting its facilities to reduce and reuse operation waste.

FDA Commissioner Gottlieb expects that the saline and amino acid drug shortages from Puerto Rican manufacturing facilities will improve in the early part of 2018.

The contract manufacturing company has completed construction on a new aseptic fill/finish facility in Wuxi, China.

Recent investments show expansion activity in cell culture facilities.