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Outsourcing

Lonza to boost output of highly potent drug actives

by Rick Mullin
June 21, 2019 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 97, Issue 25

 

A photo from Lonza's site in Visp, Switzerland.
Credit: Lonza
A fermenter at Lonza's site in Visp

Lonza plans to increase capacity for highly potent active pharmaceutical ingredients (HPAPIs) by adding two 4 m3 multipurpose production lines at its main site in Visp, Switzerland, by July 2020. The expansion will support a long-term manufacturing agreement with AstraZeneca as well as overall increased HPAPI demand for cancer therapies. “Oncology continues as the leading indication in biopharma,” says Lee Newton, head of Lonza’s API business.

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