Facility Design and Engineering

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.

Modular facilities allow for a certain amount of flexibility and reconfiguration options.

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.

Tower Cold Chain will soon open its new headquarters in Philadelphia.

The new headquarters located in Columbus, Ohio, more than triples Andelyn Biosciences’ footprint to meet growing demand for CGT services.

India’s Enzene Biosciences is investing $50 Million into a new biopharma manufacturing plant in Hopewell, NJ.

The new facility also provides a plan for scalable product production processes that can potentially be replicated by Vaxxas domestically and globally.

The investment, which is taking place in Hillerød, Denmark, will aim to create more production capacity and increase the company’s ability to meet future market demands and to continue development on its future clinical late-phase product portfolio.

API supplier Olon has started construction of a new manufacturing facility in Milan, Italy, which will be dedicated to production of cytotoxic payloads and linkers for ADCs.

The new CGMP facility is expected to contribute to the development of mRNA therapeutics, with a building designed for the CGMP manufacture of mRNA-based in-vivo gene editing, gene-edited cell therapies, protein replacement therapies, cancer vaccines, and infectious disease vaccines.

The facility is based on a state-of-the-art design concept that allows maximum flexibility for a multi-product, multi-platform offering.

uBriGene Biosciences will acquire Mustang Bio’s Worcester, Mass., CGT manufacturing facility in a deal worth up to $11 million, expanding its operations into the US market.

Contextualizing what type of flexibility is needed is paramount when considering cleanroom design.

Avid Bioservices has launched new CGMP mammalian cell manufacturing suites at its Myford, Calif., facility.

The construction will expand Catalent’s clinical supply facility in Schorndorf, Germany.

The combination of modular facilities and closed processing offers significant advantages in the production of biopharmaceuticals and is becoming a compelling option for manufacturing.

Forecyte Bio has opened a new GMP facility in Shanghai just two months after its sister site in the United States.

The new site will include state-of-the-art cleanroom facilities, laboratories, R&D, and office spaces.

NextPharma has acquired a leading European chewable tablets manufacturing site from Takeda in Asker, Norway.

Takeda plans to build a new facility in Osaka, Japan, for the manufacture of plasma-derived therapies.

Samsung Biologics plans to invest more than ₩1.9 trillion (US$1.5 billion) in the new Incheon, South Korea, facility, which will hold a manufacturing capacity of 180,000 L.

The new plasmid manufacturing facility aims to increase BioNTech’s autonomy and flexibility in manufacturing.

Catalent has completed the expansion of its clinical supply facility located in Shanghai, China.