Thursday, April 6, 2023 Daily Archives

Meissner building $250m filtration plant in Georgia

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The Athens, Georgia facility will create 1,700 jobs and more than double Meissner’s US filtration and single-use product manufacturing footprint, the firm says. Meissner Corporation is investing nearly $250 million into the new facility in Winterville, Athens-Clarke County, the company announced this week. Once complete, the facility will boast cleanroom facilities, laboratories, research and development, and office spaces, and will substantially grow the firm’s current US footprint for single-use systems, filtration products, and aseptic filling systems used in the biomanufacturing…

April 6, 2023

Sanofi breaks ground on BARDA-supported fill-finish plant

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The plant in Swiftwater, Pennsylvania will provide formulation and filling services and supports the US Government’s strategy to increase domestic production capabilities. In 2019, Sanofi’s vaccine division won a contract with the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) with the Biomedical Advance Research and Development Authority (BARDA) providing $226 million to support pandemic influenza vaccine production. The contract involved three stages of expansion at the Pennsylvania site to support Sanofi’s adjuvanted recombinant pandemic influenza vaccine. Following the doubling…

April 6, 2023

Teknova and Sartorius partner to address gene therapy challenges

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The collaboration aims to help gene therapy companies streamline their downstream purification processes, says Alpha Teknova and Sartorius BIA Separations. Teknova, a manufacturer of reagents for research, development, and commercialization of vaccines, therapies, and molecular diagnostics has partnered with BIA Separations – part of Sartorius  after being acquired  for $423 million in October 2020. Sartorius BIA Separations’ adeno-associated virus (AAV) platform, which has been designed to improve the separation of viral particles and Teknova’s buffer solutions developed to expand capsid…

April 6, 2023