ISPE Names the 2016 Pharmaceutical Facility of the Year Category Awards

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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 2016 Category Award winners. In its 12th 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:

• Baxter BioPharma Solutions: Operational Excellence award for the expansion of its parenteral manufacturing plant in Halle, Germany. The facility demonstrates operational excellence principals and innovative manufacturing concepts with state-of-the-art isolator technology, combined with high flexibility for rapid changeover and broad flexibility to manufacture a wide variety of liquid formulations.
• Ethicon, LLC: Sustainability award for its facility in San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico. The site's Sustainability efforts resulted in energy reduction of 26% (4.4 million kilowatt hours (kWh)), and water reduction of 9% (1.25 million gallons), while increasing production volume by 11%, compared to 2010 consumption levels.
• Genentech (a member of the Roche Group): Process Innovation award for its large-scale Cell Culture Biologics Drug Substance Plant 2 (CCP2). Located in Vacaville, California, this facility revamped an existing CCP2 Facility to support new process technology, which resulted in significant savings in capital ($50 million).
• Janssen Vaccines AG: Project Execution award for its "Fast Track Refurbishment for Ebola Vaccine Production" based in Bern, Switzerland. In response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Janssen committed to accelerating the development of its candidate Ebola vaccine.
• Pfizer: Equipment Innovation award for its Portable, Continuous, Miniature and Modular (PCMM) prototype unit for Oral Solid Dosage forms, which transforms raw materials into uncoated tablets in minutes. The equipment fits into a portable facility called a POD that can be shipped to any location to get medicines to patients when and where they are needed.
• Takara Bio: Facility Integration award for its Center for Gene and Cell Processing (CGCP) in Shiga, Japan. In order to improve operational and cost efficiencies, Takara housed cell products, viral vectors and recombinant proteins all within the same facility. To eliminate risk of cross contamination, Takara incorporated well considered facility and operational containment measures.

Honorable Mentions were awarded to: Greater Pharma Co., Ltd., the University of Strathclyde and West Pharmaceuticals Services, Inc.

The 2016 Facility of the Year Awards Category Winners will be formally recognized at the ISPE Facility of the Year Awards Banquet on June 7, 2016 in North Bethesda, Maryland. The 2016 FOYA Overall Winner will be announced at the 2016 ISPE Annual Meeting from September 18-- 21 in Atlanta, Georgia.

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