
Boehringer injects €230 million in new Biologicals Development Center
pharmafile | June 26, 2018 | News story | Manufacturing and Production | Boehringer Ingelheim, biologics, manufacturing, pharma
Prominent industry player Boehringer Ingelheim has unveiled plans to invest €230 million into the construction of a new Biologicals Development Center in Germany.
The investment is a bid to expand developmental capacity in order to facilitate growth in the company’s drug pipeline, which will in turn free up resources for contract manufacturing. The new site will focus development in areas of unmet medical need, featuring a combination of biologics analytical and process development, as well as manufacturing capacity for clinical studies.
The new facility will be located alongside its existing Research and Development site in Biberach. It is expected to launch in staggered phases beginning in 2020 and will employ 500 staff. The company also has existing biopharmaceutical facilities in Austria, China, and the US.
“The BDC is another key building block supporting the company’s long-term strategy for increasing the pipeline’s share of biologicals. This is particularly driven by two of our core areas, immune oncology and immunology,” commented Dr Fridtjof Traulsen, Corporate Senior Vice President Development at Boehringer Ingelheim. “The share of new biological entities in Boehringer Ingelheim’s research pipeline has been consistently increasing over the past few years and has now reached 40%.”
Matt Fellows
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