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Taiwan Tung-Mao Su, chairman of TPMA, highlights the association’s historic significance in cultivating Taiwan’s pharmaceutical industry, its members’ most pressing concerns, and outlines the developments of the company which he leads as president, Chi Sheng Pharma & Biotech.   At this key moment, we in the pharmaceutical industry should make the…

Puerto Rico Ricardo Zayas of US manufacturer Romark, highlights the company’s ambition to make Puerto Rico its operations and manufacturing headquarters. Currently in the scale-up phase, Zayas aims to expand the capacities of the plant in Manatí and position Romark as the poster child for new pharmaceutical manufacturers coming to Puerto Rico.…

Puerto Rico David Foster, president and co-founder of Isla Pharmaceuticals, explains the rationale behind selecting Puerto Rico as a base for the company, which aims to develop treatments for mosquito-borne disease. He highlights Isla Pharmaceuticals’ unique approach of tackling diseases like Dengue fever and reveals plans for conducting follow-up clinical trials in…

Sweden Founded in 1989 by brothers Jan G and Leif Smith, ABIGO Medical is a successful private Swedish pharmaceutical and medical technology company with a focus on bacterial and infection control in the fight against antibiotic resistance. Jan G Smith, chairman and CEO, explains his unique approach to business, the steps…

Puerto Rico Victor Cruz, VP-Manufacturing Puerto Rico and Brazil for Lilly del Caribe highlights the priorities in his new position and underlines the importance of the Carolina facility for the global insulin supply. He also discusses Puerto Rico’s role related to future trends in pharmaceutical manufacturing, such as AI, robotics and continuous…

Puerto Rico Rayne Waller, VP Manufacturing for Amgen Manufacturing Limited in Puerto Rico, is leading the operations at the company’s largest manufacturing facility in Juncos, which manufactures more than 90 percent of Amgen’s products. He highlights the importance and competitive advantages of Puerto Rico for Amgen, while also explaining why the company…

Puerto Rico Carlos Rodríguez, the newly elected president of the Puerto Rico Manufacturers Association (PRMA), underlines his main goal of achieving more collaboration within the association and the economic ecosystem, to facilitate lobbying efforts both in Puerto Rico and at the federal level in Washington, DC. He also highlights his aim to…

Puerto Rico Marco Monrouzeau is the general manager and CFO of the Puerto Rican affiliate of Mexican drug maker Neolpharma, which has manufacturing operations at its site in Caguas. Monrouzeau highlights how Neolpharma has started its operations on the island in 2013 and since then has developed significant R&D capabilities to be…

Sweden Malin Parkler, country manager of Pfizer Sweden, breaks down the extensive footprint of Pfizer in Sweden across the value chain, lays down the advantages of Sweden as a research and manufacturing hub, and shares the exciting local collaborations and partnerships the company is developing to support healthcare and patients.  …

Taiwan Wei-Hong Tseng, founder and chairman of PharmaCore Biotech, introduces the specialized CDMO and its unique capacities to produce high value-added products. As a leading service provider in Taiwan, Tseng goes on to explain the company’s future strategy to not only continue its international expansion but also further enhance its innovative…

China Dr Shun Luo, chairman, founder and CEO of Thousand Oaks Biopharmaceuticals, shares the company’s vision to deliver more accessible and affordable biologics to patients globally by lowering the cost of goods manufactured (COGM) per gram of recombinant protein; the paradigm-shifting technology and processes Thousand Oaks Biopharmaceuticals is innovating as an…

Puerto Rico GK CMO, a Puerto Rican contract manufacturing organization (CMO) recently inaugurated its manufacturing facility on the island. With the potential to manufacture advanced biologic and biosimilar products, the event could herald the beginning of a new era for Puerto Rican pharma manufacturing and was thus attended by two of the…