Lonza Invests in Single-Use Technology and Facility Upgrades for Clinical Antibody Drug Conjugate Manufacturing

12-Jun-2014 - Switzerland

Lonza announced investment plans for technology and facility improvements to its Antibody Drug Conjugate (ADC) clinical manufacturing facility in Visp, Switzerland. The planned upgrades include the introduction of single-use technology for flexible ADC manufacturing, along with a recently optimized plant layout and revamping of the Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems, which has resulted in a larger ADC production area. The addition of single-use manufacturing systems will reduce potential product contamination risks and allow for increased manufacturing capacity of existing and novel ADC platforms. Currently, Lonza’s clinical ADC plant in Visp produces toxicology lots, early-phase GMP lots and GMP re-supply lots to support ongoing clinical trials for several different product candidates.

The facility re-design was already completely this spring over a seven-week period and will allow for greater flexibility in new clinical ADC product introduction. The second wave of single-use technology adoption and qualification is underway and will ultimately reduce cleaning and changeover times between manufacturing campaigns.

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