Sterling Pharma Solutions has opened its new Material Science Centre (MSC), after announcing the investment last year.
The three-floor MSC comprises six ISO Class 8 cleanrooms, which house four milling and micronisation suites. The new facility, which is the latest step in the company’s continued growth plans, also contains warehousing and workshop facilities dedicated to the milling operations, as well as a new fully equipped solid state laboratory and an analytical services laboratory and write up area.
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“The center will provide a range of specialist solid state chemistry and milling services to complement the services we already provide to our customer base,” Kevin Cook, Chief Executive Officer at Sterling, said. “This investment is in direct response to customer requirements to bring our solid form services, which have previously been outsourced to third parties, in-house. The center will allow us to manage more of the product processing and as a result improve efficiencies; mitigating risk and allowing us to provide our customers with more cost-effective solutions. It will also help to reduce overall manufacturing time as we continue to develop more efficient processes.”
Sterling Pharma Solutions’ solid form development team will be housed within the facility and will work to optimize existing processes across four connected areas of solid form investigation including, salt/cocrystal screening, polymorph screening, pre-formulation evaluation and crystallization development.