Tuesday, December 1, 2020 Daily Archives

AGC Biologics doubling Danish capacity in $192m expansion

Construction of a 19,000m2 facility at its site in Copenhagen is the latest example of the CDMO’s growth strategy. In February 2017, Japan’s AGC Asahi Glass (AGC) acquired CMC Biologics, a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) with facilities in Seattle, Washington, and Copenhagen, Denmark. Later that year, the firm rolled out an expansion at the Danish site adding five 2,000 L single-use bioreactors to be run in single unit operations or in unison. In 2018, the CDMO – now…

European Commission considers regulation for ‘bedside’ manufacturing

The European Commission has published its pharmaceutical strategy to increase access to innovative and safe medicine, including steps to adapt regulation to advanced therapies. The ‘Pharmaceutical Strategy for Europe’ was announced last week by the European Commission (EC) in order to strengthen and protect the European Union’s pharmaceutical supply chain, in light of medical innovation and the on-going pandemic. Within the subsection entitled ‘Enabling innovation and digital transformation’, the first example of innovation given is advanced therapies. In particular, the…