International pharmaceutical company Medreich Plc (MPLC) has five manufacturing facilities in Asia, and recently decided to consolidate its European manufacturing operations within the UK. The new facilities were to include room for a head office, sales and marketing office, QA and treasury, a distribution centre, QC testing and release facility, and a blister packaging facility for bulk tablets and capsules.
A new or refurbished facility that would centralise the above operations on one site was the client’s preferred option, and an existing 40,000ft2 (3,716m2) facility in Feltham, Middlesex, was procured with assistance from international consulting engineering and validation company, The GMP Group (GMPG). The site consisted of a two-storey office building with a 20,000ft2 (1,858m2) high bay warehouse with no environmental control (EC). The building was stripped back to external walls and made ready for refurbishment to the client’s brief.