Sunday, October 6, 2019 Daily Archives

From roller bottles to bioreactors: Rentschler building out ex-Shire MA plant

CDMO Rentschler is adding a 500 L single-use bioreactor at the plant it acquired from Shire in January and says further expansions will add manufacturing and lab capacity. Rentschler completed the acquisition of the Milford, Massachusetts biomanufacturing facility from the now defunct Shire in January 2019, marking its first step into the US. The German contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) makes the recombinant hemophilia A product Obizur form the facility for Takeda – which bought Shire earlier this year…