AMRI Acquires Two Aptuit Facilities

AMRI announced on Jan. 9, 2015 that it has acquired the outstanding equity interests of Aptuit's Glasgow, UK business and has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Aptuit's SSCI/West Lafayette, Indiana business for a total of $60 million, expanding AMRI's drug product development and aseptic clinical manufacturing capabilities. SSCI has a reputation for solving difficult drug substance and formulated drug product challenges and is an expert in solid-state chemistry and analytical services. In addition, Aptuit's Glasgow facility will extend AMRI's capabilities platform to include sterile injectable drug product formulation and clinical stage manufacturing.

"We are very pleased to acquire these two facilities from Aptuit, which will further AMRI's expertise in drug product development and aseptic manufacturing services, two areas of our business where we are seeing the fastest level of growth," said William S. Marth, AMRI's president and chief executive officer, in a press release. "Analytical Services sits at the interface of API and Drug Product, providing critical support for all aspects of pharmaceutical development and manufacturing. The West Lafayette team brings extensive material science knowledge and technology and will expand our capabilities in analytical testing to include peptides, proteins, and oligonucleotides."

"Aptuit's Glasgow operation strengthens our front end formulation expertise in our sterile injectable business, further extending our parenteral offerings and providing customers a single source to address their sterile fill/finish needs from formulation complete to commercial supply," continued Marth in the release. "In addition, having a Glasgow base of operations provides us with an expanded footprint and customer base in Europe for our parenteral offerings, furthering one of our strategic goals."

Under terms of the agreement, AMRI has paid $24 million for the Glasgow business. Subject to certain closing conditions, AMRI will pay the remaining $36 million for the West Lafayette business and will assume certain liabilities related to that subsidiary. AMRI expects to complete the transaction early in the first quarter of 2015.

Source: AMRI