Facility

Hologic (NSDQ:HOLX) is spending $50 million — including $14 million during its most recent quarter — to boost its production of COVID-19 tests. The U.S. government is providing $7.6 million to support the effort. Hologic’s business partner Stratec is also doubling the production of the Panther instruments that run Hologic assays. Get the full story on our sister site…

Moderna (NSDQ:MRNA) and Catalent (NYSE:CTLT) today announced a collaboration for large-scale, commercial fill-finish manufacturing of Moderna’s mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine candidate (mRNA-1273) at Catalent’s biologics facility in Bloomington, Ind. Catalent will provide vial filling and packaging capacity, as well as additional staffing required for 24×7 manufacturing operations at the site to support production of an initial 100 million…

Legacy Pharmaceutical Packaging recently announced that it has bought a 215,000-square-foot open-space facility near its St. Louis area headquarters to support widescale third-party logistics and distribution services. The new facility, announced last week, nearly doubles Legacy’s total footprint to more than 500,000 square feet. The new space allows Legacy Pharmaceutical Packaging to significantly grow its…

Lincoln Equities Group and H.I.G. Realty Partners announced today that they’ve acquired the 1.2 million-square-foot life sciences campus that Bristol-Myers Squibb owned outside Princeton, N.J. Brokerage firm JLL is helping the real estate outfits market the 433-acre “Princeton West Innovation Campus”  in Hopewell, N.J., to life sciences companies as a secure, multipurpose research and development…

In recent years, the discussion for flexible facility needs became widespread. The motivations for such flexible facility needs are manifold, for example, the requirement to rapidly deploy additional manufacturing capacities or scalability without interrupting existing processes. In addition, the transformation of the treatment or patient base to more personalized medicines necessitates the need to rethink…

West Pharmaceutical Services Inc.’s Waterford, Ireland facility is a global center of excellence for the company’s advanced manufacturing network. The facility, situated on a 44-acre campus, will produce West’s elastomeric laminate sheeting, which is used to package insulin for use in pen injectors. Additionally, it will offer high-value finishing for components, including stoppers and plungers,…

Switzerland-based Hoffmann Neopac, a global provider of packaging for a broad array of industries and applications, has earmarked two of its small-diameter Polyfoil tubes for production at its first U.S. manufacturing facility, which is scheduled to open in spring 2019. The 37,000-square-foot Wilson, NC plant will feature a high-speed tube line as part of an operation…

Connecting to a cloud-based data center is now a crucial part of updating an HVAC system—especially for pharmaceutical companies. Pharmaceutical companies significantly can reduce energy consumption—and operational costs—by making their HVAC systems more efficient. Expansive facilities with precise manufacturing requirements tend to have large cooling, boiler, and air handling systems, which often run wastefully. Optimizing…

Catalent Pharma Solutions, a global provider of advanced delivery technologies and development solutions for drugs, biologics, and consumer health products, has announced that following the site’s twentieth commercial product approval, it is investing nearly $14 million to expand biologics packaging capabilities and capacity at its Bloomington, Indiana, biologics manufacturing facility. Construction of the 15,000-square-foot facility…