Catalent Expands Singapore Clinical Supply Facility for Increased Temperature-Controlled Capabilities
SOMERSET, N.J. – September 6, 2022 — Catalent, the global leader in enabling biopharma, cell, gene, and consumer health partners to optimize development, launch, and supply of better patient treatments across multiple modalities, today announced a $2.2 million expansion to its clinical supply facility in Singapore. The investment will increase the site’s footprint by nearly 20% to 31,000 square feet, and allow the installation of 35 new freezers for ultra-low temperature (ULT) storage.
The expansion will also see the addition of specialized secondary packaging capabilities for ULT products, enabling the site’s services to support larger packaging campaigns, and increasing capabilities to handle biopharmaceuticals and advanced modalities, including mRNA-based vaccines, and cell and gene therapies.
“Our Singapore site serves as a strategic supply hub for the Asia-Pacific market, offering a wide range of services to customers in over 20 countries in the region,” said Roel de Nobel, Catalent’s Vice President and General Manager, APAC, Clinical Development & Supply. “As the site prepares to mark its 25-year anniversary, this is the latest in a series of investments and expansions that it has undertaken to meet the increasing and diversified demands of customers in their mission to develop life-changing medicines for both the region and the world.”
Alongside sites in China and Japan, Catalent’s site in Singapore serves the Asia-Pacific region with a wide range of clinical supply services including clinical supply management, comparator sourcing, Catalent’s FastChain® demand-led supply solution, secondary packaging, storage, and global distribution, as well as clinical returns and destruction.
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