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Puerto Rico Edwards Lifesciences has been manufacturing catheters in Añasco, Puerto Rico, since 1972. Manuel Palma, general manager, explains the importance of the Añasco plant for Edwards’ global supply chain, and his modernization and vertical integration strategy to position the site as a centre of excellence for materials science and machine &…

Puerto Rico Exel F. Colon, President of ECR Engineering, a Puerto Rican company specialized in water and wastewater treatment with expertise in the life sciences industry, explains what makes water critical for life sciences manufacturers, how his company helps them reduce water consumption, reduce costs and comply with regulations. He also shares…

Puerto Rico In June 2019, Sartorius Stedim Biotech inaugurated the USD 130 million expansion of its Yauco site, one of the first multi-million dollar investment projects on the island after Hurricane Maria. Dante Castillo, the Yauco site’s director of operations, explains how this expansion fits within the group’s global ambitions and what…

Puerto Rico David Fuster, plant manager of the Dorado factory of Chinese pharma outfit PuraCap, shares the company’s strategy behind the investment in Puerto Rico and how the PuraCap Caribe is leveraging technologies at the facility for new product development. He underlines the importance of Puerto Rico as a manufacturing location for…

Puerto Rico Iliette Frontera, VP Operations of Boston Scientific in Puerto Rico, shares the significance of the Dorado site within the group’s global supply chain, her four priorities to ensure sustainable growth, lessons learned from Hurricane Maria, and the importance of gender equality.   You have to be extremely agile and you…

Sweden Thomas Eldered, CEO of Sweden’s largest CDMO Recipharm, founded the company together with his business partner in 1995. Since becoming a public company in 2014, he highlights how this changed the business model and created a pure CDMO whilst increasingly expanding its global footprint both organically and through acquisitions in…

Puerto Rico Mayra L Guzman-Kaslow, president and CEO of GK Pharmaceuticals Contract Manufacturing Operations (GK CMO), the first biopharmaceutical company owned by minority woman in the US, highlights the obstacles she and her business partners faced on the way of setting up the company. She also explains why Puerto Rico has been…

Puerto Rico Four top facts you may have missed about Puerto Rico’s medical device manufacturing industry.   Fact 1: Medical device manufacturing in Puerto Rico started with Baxter in the 1950s  Baxter arrived in 1958 under the name of Travenol and opened its first plant in Carolina, making it the first life…

Puerto Rico Three heads of manufacturing for big pharma affiliates in Puerto Rico elaborate on how digital technology is revolutionising pharma manufacturing processes.   More than half of the world’s top 20 multinational pharma companies conduct manufacturing processes in Puerto Rico, and the island manufactured half of 2018’s best-selling drugs. Some Puerto…

Thailand Nico Form-Zuellig, general manager of Interthai Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, shares his thoughts on the Thai pharmaceutical market as a newcomer to the country and goes on to elaborate on the company’s long history of being a CMO of choice for MNCs in the country.   Coming from the distribution side of…

Puerto Rico In 2015, Avara, a fast-growing global pharma CDMO, acquired Merck’s plant located in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Idalia Garcia, who has been managing the site for the last six years, explains the capabilities the site offers, the reasons why Avara chose to invest in the facility and its people, and the…

Thailand The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association (PReMA) has been a key stakeholder in promoting the value of innovation in Thailand for over 100 years. CEO Dr Busakorn Lerswatanasivalee discusses the changes taking place in the Thai healthcare ecosystem and highlights the key initiatives undertaken by PReMA to widen access to,…