Monday, July 13, 2020 Daily Archives

Moderna adds Rovi to roster of coronavirus vaccine CDMOs

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Rovi has joined the list of CDMOs that will make Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine candidate if it is approved. Rovi – also known as Laboratorios Farmacéuticos Rovi – will provide commercial fill-finish and packaging services for mRNA-1273 at its facility in Madrid, Spain under a contract announced last week. Moderna said Rovi would support production of hundreds of millions of doses to supply markets outside of the US starting in early 2021. The US firm also said ROVI would hire extra manufacturing operations and…

July 13, 2020

Samsung Biologics eyes fourth plant as capacity fills

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The 364,000 L of bioreactor capacity at Samsung Biologics’ site in Korea will be fully utilized by 2022, says the CDMO as it contemplates a new facility. Contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) Samsung Biologics has grown its site in Songdo, Incheon since its inception in 2011 with three plants hosting a total of 364,000 L of mostly stainless-steel bioreactor capacity. Plant number one has 30,000 L of capacity from six 5,000 L tanks. Plant number two offers 150,000 L…

July 13, 2020

Bionova building CA manufacturing plant to feed biologics demand

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Having heard the demand from customers to add GMP biomanufacturing, Bionova has begun construction of a facility in Fremont boasting two 2,000 L single-use trains. Bionova Scientific has started to cement the ‘M’ in CDMO (contract development and manufacturing organization) after it broke ground on a 36,000 square-foot production facility last week at its site in Fremont, California. According to the firm, the “well-documented need for high-quality manufacturing capacity in the industry†helped drive the expansion, as did the call…

July 13, 2020