Flexibly designed clean room supports viral-based GMP manufacturing projects of up to 2,000 liter working volumes using state-of-the-art disposable manufacturing technologies.
Houston, TX, 15 June 2012 – Lonza, a global leader in the field of biologics manufacturing, today announced the successful completion of its new GMP clean room within its Houston, Texas operations. The clean room supports multiple types of viral vector and viral vaccine projects, with working volumes up to 2,000 liters.
“Since Lonza made the strategic decision to enter the viral manufacturing space less than two years ago, we have seen tremendous business growth,” said David Enloe, Lonza’s Head of Viral-based Therapeutics. “Many of our clients’ projects require higher working volumes than the gene therapy space has historically seen. This facility, along with the additions we’ve made to our process development and GMP manufacturing teams and the numerous other improvements made to our infrastructure and capabilities, will allow our clients to entrust their therapeutic and viral vaccine projects to Lonza from the early clinical phases up to commercial supply. We believe this represents a tremendous advantage for companies when they evaluate contract manufacturing alternatives.”
Lonza announced the launch of this project in May 2011.
About Lonza
Lonza is one of the world's leading suppliers to the pharmaceutical, healthcare and life science industries. Products and services span its customers’ needs from research to final product manufacture. It is the global leader in the production and support of active pharmaceutical ingredients both chemically as well as biotechnologically. Biopharmaceuticals are one of the key growth drivers of the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Lonza has strong capabilities in large and small molecules, peptides, amino acids and niche bioproducts which play an important role in the development of novel medicines and healthcare products. Lonza is also the world leader in microbial control providing innovative, chemistry-based and related solutions to destroy or to selectively inhibit the growth of harmful microorganisms. Its activities encompass the areas of water treatment, personal care, health and hygiene, industrial preservation, materials protection, and wood treatment. In addition, Lonza is a leader in cell-based research, endotoxin detection and cell therapy manufacturing. Furthermore, the company is a leading provider of value chemical and biotech ingredients to the nutrition and agro markets.
Lonza is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland and is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange and secondary listed on the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited (“SGX-ST”). Lonza is not subject to the SGX-ST’s continuing listing requirements. Lonza is subject to the listing rules of the SIX Swiss Exchange, which do not have specific requirements equivalent to the listing rules of the SGX-ST in respect of interested person transactions, acquisition and realizations, and delisting. In 2011, the company had sales of CHF 2.69 billion. Further information can be found at www.lonza.com.
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