A green building for potent drugs

Published: 21-Dec-2011
Manufacturing Ingredients

Pfizer CentreSource uses the high potency suites at Pfizer\'s Freiburg, Germany plant to offer an end to end third party contract manufacturing service for high potency drugs. The high potency area offers dry compaction, wet granulation, bead coating, melt extrusion, external lubrication and compression scale-up

You need to be a subscriber to read this article.
Click here to find out more.

Pfizer has proven itself to be innovative in high potency drug production at its FOYA-winning Illertissen plant in Germany. Susan Birks visited another of its high potency suites at its Frieburg plant – used by Pfizer CentreSource for third party contract manufacturing.

Pfizer is no stranger to International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineers (ISPE) accolades. In October 2008, the NewCon facility at Illertissen in Germany was voted overall winner of the Facility of the Year Award (FOYA) for its high level of automation and lean techniques. The plant has expert competence in occupational exposure band (OEB) 4/5 manufacturing and incorporated numerous best practice innovations.

Not yet a Subscriber?

This is a small extract of the full article which is available ONLY to premium content subscribers. Click below to get premium content on Cleanroom Technology.

Subscribe now Already a subscriber? Sign in here.
See more

You may also like

Design & Build

ISPE names Facility of the Year 2019

Read more
Six winners in seven categories recognising innovation and creativity in manufacturing facilities serving the regulated healthcare industry

Trending Articles

  1. Fraser Anti-Static Techniques Ltd Fraser Anti-Static Techniques Ltd was founded in 1991 to develop and manufacture solutions to industrial static electricity problems.
  2. How to design a cleanroom monitoring system This guide to designing a GMP-compliant cleanroom monitoring system is the first of a series of four articles about monitoring systems covering design, installation and validation, maintenance, and data interpretation
  3. Titan Products shortlisted for CIBSE award For the BACnet CCM204/NV natural ventilation controller
  4. Hovione takes first step into aseptic production Hovione has added aseptic production to its cGMP development and active pharmaceutical ingredients manufacturing with the US$2.5m purchase of an aseptic spray-drying production line, vial filling and back up utilities from Acusphere of Boston, US.
  5. Big opportunities in micro-moulding Catheter components, implants, and blade holders are typical items made with micro-injection moulding. Nigel Flowers, managing director at Sumitomo (SHI) Demag (UK), explains the manufacturing challenges, contamination risks, and argues the case for all-electric machines

Upcoming event

Cleanzone Middle East

September 18-19 2025 | Conference | Conrad Dubai, United Arab Emirates See all

You may also like

Design & Build

ISPE names Facility of the Year 2019

Six winners in seven categories recognising innovation and creativity in manufacturing facilities serving the regulated healthcare industry
Design & Build

G-CON delivers cleanroom POD with tablet coating capability to Pfizer

The US pharma company installed a portable, continuous, miniature modular unit at its OSD facility in Connecticut
Design & Build

Pfizer plans sterile injectable facility in Michigan

Representing an investment of nearly half a billion dollars in US manufacturing, the project will create more than 450 jobs
Design & Build

Pfizer invests $350m in global biotechnology centre in China

US drugmaker aims to advance its leading position in biosimilars manufacturing
Containment

Pharmaceutical tablet production goes mobile with award-winning technology from GEA

Pfizer combines GEA’s continuous processing technology with G-CON portable cleanroom PODs for the manufacture of drug tablets anytime, anywhere
Design & Build

Pfizer Ireland Pharmaceuticals named overall winner in 2014 Facility of the Year Awards

The company expanded capacity by re-purposing existing manufacturing space and adding new vaccine and bioprocess suites
Containment

GEA Process Engineering and G-CON enter PCMM alliance with Pfizer

To develop oral solid dose processing technologies to address changing industry requirements
Subscribe now