Located near a cluster of pharmaceutical innovation, our Cork facility offers API development and manufacturing services to its customers with specialist expertise in peptide manufacturing and large scale chromatography. The facility is home to three API manufacturing buildings, as well as facilities to support development and scale up.
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Fast Facts
Opened in 1994
Established in 1999
350+ employees
3 API manufacturing buildings
111 acre/450,000 square foot site
175m2 reactor capacity
Our 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
- Grignard reaction chemistry
- Highly potent APIs (HPAPIs)
- Solvent recovery
- Drug substance production
Our Cork site is home to an array of specialised equipment to handle comprehensive analytical work and complex chemistries for API development and manufacturing.
- 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’ monitoring 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
Our Cork site offers GMP manufacturing capabilities with an impressive track record in regulatory inspections from the PDMA, HPRA, ANVISA, FDA, 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.
