Facility Design and Engineering

Texcell North America’s new lab facility in Frederick, Md., will expand the CRO’s capabilities in R&D cell culture, viral clearance studies, and viral safety testing.

Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies' 89,000 square-foot expansion of its BioProcess Innovation Center in Research Triangle Park, N.C., will double its capacity to support process characterization.

A new focus on speed to market creates challenges for facility design and construction.

Amgen and Syngene International have extended their research collaboration to 2026.

Genezen has opened its new process development and analytical lab for viral vector production.

Pfizer invested $68.5 million in a facility in Durham, NC.

FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific’s new manufacturing facility in Tilburg, the Netherlands, is now fully operational.

FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies plans to invest £400 million (US$528 million) to expand its Billingham, Teeside facility in the United Kingdom.

Guide addresses challenges of applying GMPs to autologous cell therapy manufacturing.

Sartorius is investing €100 million (US$113 million) between 2021 and 2025 to expand capacities for production, innovation, and storage at its French facilities in Aubagne, Cergy, and Lourdes.

Sartorius will invest approximately €270 million (US$305 million) to expand its biopharmaceutical manufacturing activities in South Korea’s biopharm hub.

BeiGene has acquired property in Hopewell, NJ to build a new manufacturing site and clinical R&D center for advanced new medicines.

Speed to market, flexibility, and digitalization are important topics in biopharmaceutical manufacturing.

Lonza is expanding its microbial development capabilities at its Visp, Switzerland, site to support clinical and commercial drug development programs.

Luke Stockhausen, Lead Process Engineer, CRB, talks about technological advances, processing line changes, and new solutions to overcome challenges in aseptic processing.

GenScript’s new gene synthesis center in Piscataway, NJ, is highly automated to accelerate production time and increase supply chain resiliency for biopharma and synthetic biology.

Gentronix has expanded it lab facilities and increased capacity for genetic, ocular, and skin toxicology testing.

Janssen Sciences Ireland was honored for its project execution of a large-scale expansion of biologics drug substance fed-batch capacity.

SGS’s new Antwerp, Belgium, clinical research site will house both clinical trial patients and good manufacturing practice drug manufacturing, and its Glasgow, UK, biosafety testing site now has increased testing capacity.

MilliporeSigma announced the opening of its second Carlsbad, California-based facility, which doubles production capacity to support commercial and industrial manufacturing of viral vectors.

Metrion’s new 12,000 ft² headquarters will significantly expand its range of services and cell lines.

AGC Biologics is expanding manufacturing capacity at its Heidelberg, Germany, facility for plasmid DNA and messenger RNA.

Eli Lilly and Company and industry partners, including Ziath, are focused on speeding up the drug discovery process with a fully automated lab.

AGC Biologics has broken ground on a new multipurpose facility in Copenhagen, Denmark, that will increase capacity.

Lonza plans to establish drug product manufacturing capabilities at is site in Guangzhou, China, to produce clinical trial and commercial supply in the country.

BlackBerry’s QNX real-time operating system may create cybersecurity vulnerabilities, according to FDA.

The Cleveland, Ohio facility will produce critical anti-infective drug products for US hospitals.

Artiva Biotherapeutics’s new R&D and GMP manufacturing center in San Diego, Calif., for NK cell therapies is expected to open in 2022.

Syngene’s additions include a new microbial facility and an expanded mammalian facility.

Rentschler Biopharma has broken ground nearby its Milford, Mass., site where it will build its new multi-product manufacturing facility for commercial production of complex molecules.