Facility Design and Engineering

BioNTech plans to produce up to 250 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, BNT162b2, in the first half of 2021.

The new facility will produce cell therapies for clinical evaluation from discovery through to Phase 2b trials while expanding Takeda’s abilities to develop next-generation cell therapies.

In addition to increasing production, Thermo Fisher will create 1000 jobs across its global manufacturing sites to further automation capabilities and optimize warehouse and sterilization capacity.

The investment will include new manufacturing lines and increased automation to deliver additional manufacturing capacity.

The investment at its Madison, WI, facility will expand MilliporeSigma’s capacity for high-potent active pharmaceutical ingredient production and allow for continuous flow manufacturing of ADCs.

The company is investing $130 million to add Phase III through commercial-scale manufacturing suites to its gene therapy campus in Harmans, MD.

The new facility will be adjacent to Thermo Fisher’s newly expanded biologics manufacturing facility.

The companies have signed a partnership agreement to provide extractables and leachables testing at the SG US Technology Excellence Center in Boston, MA.

The new line will add capacity to Catalent’s pipeline of clinical programs and commercial launches at the site.

The facility offers office, production, sampling, and warehouse space and delivers products to all major global markets.

Oxford Biomedica will reserve capacity for AstraZeneca in three of its manufacturing suites in its new commercial manufacturing center, Oxbox, for 18 months.

The new facility, located in Lenexa, KS, will rapidly expand production of viral transport media.

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Medical management services provider, Europital, has announced the opening of a new site in Oxford, United Kingdom, in response to demand from small and medium innovators within the biotech industry.

The company has made several moves in recent weeks to expand manufacturing capacity and cell line services.

The European Medicines Agency recently approved two European Novartis sites in France and Switzerland for the commercial manufacturing of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell cell therapies.

The expanded facility will feature two new 40-L and 300-L manufacturing vessels, a capsule filling line, and six drying tunnels that will add more than 10 million doses per annum to the site.

The new facility will give the company’s Australian customers access to tablet formulation and coating services in order to shorten supply chains and increase the region’s pharmaceutical sector capacity.

The expansion will involve using the facilities’ existing central utilities and labs to supplement its small-scale and large-scale assets.

The investment will allow for the expansion of analytical R&D efforts and will support the company’s reference materials business.

CMOs and CDMOs expanded their services and facilities in 2020.

The acquisition will give the CDMO additional clinical filling options in Europe, which is expected to come online in 2021.

The new site will offer initial design and development, low-volume manufacturing, and scalable high-quality production of wearable drug delivery devices.

The new facility in Grand Rapids, MI, is part of the CDMO’s aggressive expansion plan.

Manufacturers must address scale-out challenges of autologous cell therapy for commercial manufacturing.

The site can now support customized product and bioprocess development and custom cell and gene therapy reagent manufacturing.

The expansion included adding new softgel encapsulation lines at its Strathroy, Canada and Sorocaba, Brazil sites for Catalent’s Vegicaps plant-based capsule and its CosmoPod twist-off capsule technologies.

The refurbishment provides enhanced glass melting power, improved glass distribution, and the production of transparent and amber type I glass bottles to meet the increase in demand for glass vials for vaccines and life-saving medicines.

The expansions included enhancing high-speed automatic syringe assembly and labeling, vial labeling and cartoning, and auto-injector assembly.

The updated facility is 60,000 square feet and is equipped with bioprocessing capabilities ranging from 10L to 2000L.