Cambrex Nears Completion of Multi-Year, $100M Small-Molecule API Expansion

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During DCAT Week 2024, Matt Bio, Chief Scientific Officer, outlined Cambrex’s recent expansion activity at the DCAT Member Company Announcement Forum held on March 18th, 2024. Matt explains that that this project, a five-year, $100-million-dollar investment, was nearing completion by the end of 2024, one year ahead of schedule. This expansion grows our capacity and capabilities across 70% of our North American and European drug development and manufacturing network. It spans all scales of clinical and commercial drug-substance development and manufacturing and adds capacity, new capabilities, and advanced technologies.

Capital projects that have been completed as part of the five-year plan include, but are not limited to:

  • A new high-potency API (HPAPI) lab for process and analytical development in its site in Milan, Italy, which includes two high-containment isolators.
  • A new, 40,000-ft2 stability storage facility in Liege, Belgium, with 35,000 temperature-controlled storage spaces for long-term, intermediate and accelerated stability trials, including 2 – 8°C and 25°C / 60% relative humidity (RH) and 40°C / 75% RH.
  • A 51,00-ft2 R&D buildout at its site in Waltham, Massachusetts, with five GMP kilo-labs, a stability suite, and 24 hoods to support continuous flow and batch process development and manufacturing.
  • 35,500 ft2 of clinical development and manufacturing capacity in High Point, North Carolina, which includes two clinical suites with paired 500-gallon and 200-gallon reactors, a new process chemistry lab with 65 bench hoods and 8 walk-in hoods, a dedicated 4,000-ft2 flow chemistry lab and a development scale-up lab.
  • 30% capacity increase at its flagship commercial API manufacturing facility in Charles City, Iowa, with new reactors sized up to 16,000L and totaling 25,000 gallon (100 m3) of reactor capacity.

For more details and the full scope of this project, you can read our press release or the entire article in DCAT Value Chain Insights below.

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