Friday, May 28, 2021 Daily Archives

Venair doubling single-use capacity as global demand rockets

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Biopharma tubing firm Venair has broken ground on a $6 million facility in Spain to support a jump in demand triggered by COVID-19. The 2,200m2 ‘Excellence Center’ Venair Group near Barcelona, Spain will be fully operational by Q4 2022 and will double the firm’s global capacity for single-use equipment and tubing used in bioprocessing functions. “This center will focus on: Extrusion of silicone and TPE tubing, manufacturing of single-use bags, assembling of single-use kits, [and an] innovation center for the…

May 28, 2021

Swiss gov helps Lonza recruit staff to manufacture Moderna vaccine

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The Swiss government has recruited at least 25 workers to operate the production lines at Lonza’s facility in Visp. Contract development manufacturing organization (CDMO) Lonza has been supporting Moderna since May 2020 to manufacture its cell-free messenger RNA (mRNA) COVID-19 vaccine. However, there have been concerns regarding supply delays and it was even alleged the CDMO had tapped fellow Swiss company Nestle for workers in order to service its deal to produce drug substance for hundreds of millions of doses of Moderna’s…

May 28, 2021