Tagged with manufacturing

Ireland Deirdre Bourke, Country Lead at Eli Lilly’s Irish affiliate, highlights the strategic importance of Ireland to Lilly’s global operations, their exciting upcoming pipeline, the challenges and opportunities she foresees for Lilly in Ireland, and her own professional transition from managing Lilly’s diabetes portfolio to Lilly’s overall commercial activities in Ireland.…

Switzerland With 40 years of history in Switzerland, B Braun serves every hospital in the country and operates three distinct production sites. CEO Madeleine Stöckli discusses her strategy for improving productivity and finding opportunities for growth. Could you please briefly introduce yourself and B Braun Switzerland to our readers? B Braun…

Ireland Paula O’Neill, co-founder and MD of Premium Power, an Irish electrical consultancy, highlights the importance of having safe, resilient and efficient electrical systems, particularly in high-tech industries like pharmaceutical manufacturing, and her growth strategy for Premium Power in the next few years. Can you give our international audience an introduction…

Mexico This chart gives an insight into the phenomenal importance of the pharmaceutical industry to Mexico, in terms of both monetary value and employment created. Public, private, and out of pocket healthcare coverage in Mexico. The growth of the Mexican pharma industry by patented, generic and OTC segments. API Manufacturing compared…

Switzerland Developing manufacturing capacity for as yet unapproved drugs can create huge risk on innovators’ balance sheets, risk which can be mitigated by working instead with a competent CMO – a form of insurance as explained by Siegfried CEO Rudolf Hanko.   The CMO sector has grown faster than the pharma…

Philippines J. de Ruyter “Toto” C. Oroceo, President and General Manager of Delex Pharma International Inc. (DPII), and his team discuss the company’s rapid growth in the Philippines since 2013, the key areas driving success for the company as well as their plans to venture into manufacturing and expanding their business…

Philippines J. de Ruyter “Toto” C. Oroceo, President and General Manager of Delex Pharma International Inc. (DPII), and his team discuss the company’s rapid growth in the Philippines since 2013, the key areas driving success for the company as well as their plans to venture into manufacturing and expanding their business…

Ireland Chairman for BioPharmaChemical Ireland and Leader of Pfizer’s two small molecule API manufacturing sites in Cork, Seamus Fives recounts his team’s efforts to avert the closure of the Little Island facility through improvements in operating efficiency, and discusses how Pfizer is re-equipping their small molecule facilities to fit the needs…

Philippines Higinio “JP” Porte, president of the Philippine Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, discusses how his extensive pharmaceutical background led him to his current role as well as the main objectives of the association moving forward. He also discusses his work to create comradery within the association, fostering an environment where members are…

Mexico José Angel García Hinojosa, counsellor of the board of the Grupo Loeffler Russek, details how Loeffler’s impressive growth has forced the company to increase their manufacturing capacity. While Loeffler grew from a small Mexican business to one of the most prominent generics companies in the fast-growing Mexican market, Mr. García…

Switzerland Nicolas Hug reveals how UCB´s new facility in Bulle, Switzerland, is one of the largest microbial derived pharmaceuticals plants in Europe; how the key challenge for manufacturers today is to guarantee supplies by building a robust network; and why manufacturing is where dreams become reality, taking the results from a…

Singapore Mundipharma’s president of Asia Pacific, Latin America, and the Middle East and Africa, Raman Singh defines the underlying drivers behind the company’s explosive growth, while sharing his insights on what it takes for pharma companies to truly succeed in modern-day emerging markets. He also elaborates on Mundipharma’s recent decision to…