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Reported by Annette Kreuger, Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The judging panel for the International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineering's (ISPE) Facility of the Year Awards (FOYA) has just released the 2015 Category Award winners. In its 11th year, the FOYA is the pharmaceutical industry's premier awards program, dedicated to celebrating innovation and accomplishments in facility design, construction and operation.
The winning companies and respective award categories are:
Winners for the 2015 ISPE Category awards will be formally recognized at a banquet on June 2, 2015, in Baltimore, Maryland. The 2015 FOYA's overall winner will be announced during the plenary session at the 2015 ISPE Annual Meeting on November 8-11 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Winners for the 2015 ISPE Category awards will have the opportunity to make presentations during educational sessions at the ISPE Annual Meeting.
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The winning companies and respective award categories are:
- Project Execution: AstraZeneca China won for its market supply solid-dose facility in Taizhou, China. AstraZeneca's in-country team used a broad range of the company's global engineering, operations and safety practices to complete this 533,000-square-foot facility in a record 20 months. The facility came in 18% under the sanctioned budget, while maintaining an exemplary safety record of 3.26 million hours worked without a recordable safety incident. Cockram (Melbourne, Australia) was the project contractor.
- Equipment Innovation: Astellas Pharma Incorporated won for its tube packaging and labeling equipment project. Astellas Ireland Company Limited (Kerry) delivered a technology innovation allowing it to fill product into tubes that are printed with only common information for various markets, and introduced a process to add country-specific label information on the tubes. This innovation dramatically improved plant flexibility, simplified the supply chain, and significantly reduced acceptance testing, product raw materials stock levels, and overall delivery lead-time.
- Facility Integration: IDT Biologika GMbH won for its biologics and vaccines production facility in Dessau, Germany. The highly automated manufacturing facility for filling and freeze‐drying is designed to be modular, efficient and expandable. The site's layout was devised to guarantee the shortest supply and disposal routes.
Winners for the 2015 ISPE Category awards will be formally recognized at a banquet on June 2, 2015, in Baltimore, Maryland. The 2015 FOYA's overall winner will be announced during the plenary session at the 2015 ISPE Annual Meeting on November 8-11 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Winners for the 2015 ISPE Category awards will have the opportunity to make presentations during educational sessions at the ISPE Annual Meeting.
Industrial Info Resources (IIR), with global headquarters in Sugar Land, Texas, five offices in North America and 10 international offices, is the leading provider of global market intelligence specializing in the industrial process, heavy manufacturing and energy markets. Industrial Info's quality-assurance philosophy, the Living Forward Reporting Principle, provides up-to-the-minute intelligence on what's happening now, while constantly keeping track of future opportunities.
