Facility Spotlight: Ringaskiddy, Cork, Ireland
24th Jan 2023
Expertise across the full API lifecycle to streamline development and manufacturing
Cork at a glance
Established in 1994
350+ employees
3 API manufacturing buildings
111 acre site
175m3 reactor capacity
Comprehensive services for a wide range of project requirements.
The Cork facility delivers extensive expertise to support a variety of technical requirements from development through to commercialisation.
Some of our key services include:
– Peptide manufacturing
– Analytical development
– Chemistry development
– Milling and micronisation
– Large-scale chromatography
– Low temperature reactions
– Hydrogenation
– Water sensitive chemistry
– Corrosive chemistry
– Gringard reaction chemistry
– Highly potent APIs (HPAPIs)
– Solvent recovery
– Drug substance production
State-of-the-art equipment to maximise your success.
Sterling’s Cork site is home to an array of specialised equipment to handle comprehensive analytical work and complex chemistries for API development and manufacturing.
Some of the equipment and facilities we have on site at Cork include:
– 10 buildings for analytical chemistry, development, manufacturing and scale-up
– More than 30 reactor trains and 175m3 of reactor capacity
– Facilities for GMP manufacture from 250L to 10,000L
– Chemistry and analytical laboratories
– Solid phase and agitated vessels for peptide coupling and synthesis
– Impact mills, cone mills and jet mills to meet various specifications
– Micro laboratory suite
– ‘Lasentec’ minitoring of crystallisation
– Centrifuge, filter dryer and lyophilisation equipment for isolation
– ‘Near Infra Red’ and online spectrometry monitoring for API drying
– Liquid/liquid extraction technology
– Hastalloy and titanium filter dryers with glovebox technology for product offload
– Cleanroom suite with 13 product finishing rooms
– 14 laboratories
More than a traditional CDMO.
At Sterling, we are committed to working in true scientific partnership with our customers to fully understand their project requirements and maximise their success. That’s why we are a PDMO®, or partnership development and manufacturing organisation. This means:
This means:
Service
We pride ourselves on being easy to do business with, removing layers of complexity, maximising flexibility and scalability to your requirements, and doing what we say we will do, again and again.
Passion
We promise to treat your molecule as our own, drive progress by continually exploring new and emerging capabilities, and do the right thing for our people and planet.
Science
We combine our expertise in complex and hazardous chemistry, our world-class facilities and our full-lifecycle capabilities to place scientific excellence at the core of every solution we deliver.
Experienced in supporting the full API lifecycle and located near a cluster of pharmaceutical innovation in Cork, Ireland, Sterling’s Ringaskiddy site delivers world-class solutions for development, manufacturing, scale-up and commercialisation. With comprehensive analytical services, GMP manufacturing capabilities, and hassle-free technology transfer to Sterling’s other specialised facilities, the Ringsakiddy team can help you proactively overcome development and manufacturing challenges to maximise project continuity and enhance your long-term success.
Here are some of the things you should know about our Cork facility.
Constructed in 1994 and acquired by Sterling in 2022, the Cork facility offers 41,020 square feet of laboratory and manufacturing space wholly dedicated to every phase of the API lifecycle. With 10 buildings and the ability to handle projects up to a 10,000L scale, Cork is equipped to support a broad range of project requirements. Our Cork site delivers comprehensive analytical and technical solutions to address complex requirements while providing high-quality, scalable results.
With more than 350 dedicated team members from a range of technical backgrounds, our team at Cork delivers the expertise and collaboration necessary to maximise success at every stage of your project.
Sterling continues to invest in the Cork site to support added capacity, capabilities and expertise. By expanding our resources and continually adding new, experienced team members, we can support an even broader range of projects. In addition, we continue to embrace new technologies and capabilities based on industry dynamics and our customers’ requirements.
Our Cork site offers GMP manufacturing capabilities with an impressive track record in regulatory inspections from the HPRA, ANVISA, HSA and EPA. We are also committed to protecting our planet, with on-site wastewater treatment, solvent recovery, and ongoing environmental, social and governance efforts.
