Nycomed - Global Contract Services for Pharmaceutical Production

After its recent acquisition of ALTANA Pharma the new Nycomed is adding to its global pharmaceutical contract manufacturing activities, possessing a broader range of services and covering nearly all areas of pharmaceutical production. Nycomed offers full service and customer-tailored approaches to meet the requirements of its customers.

With plants throughout the world, Nycomed is always close to its customers and their key markets, a core value for building a strong and lasting relationship. It is fundamental to the policy of Nycomed not only to offer the best possible quality in terms of product, service and supply chain but also to interact with each client and task on an individual basis. Nycomed is committed to the establishment of integrated communication with its clients in order to meet their needs. This is the reason many market-leading pharmaceutical companies rely on Nycomed.

SOLIDS, SEMISOLIDS, LIQUIDS AND STERILES PRODUCTION

Nycomed offers both basic and specialized technologies for bulk production and packaging. With its comprehensive technology portfolio, providing specific and niche technologies, the production capabilities range from nutritional and vitamin products to high potent drugs and other pharmaceutical products. Nycomed also offers a broad range of steriles based on a variety of ingredients, including biologics.

Our technology portfolio for the bulk production of solids includes:

• Mixing and granulation (wet, fluid bed and roller compaction)
• Pellet production (non pairelles, extrusion, Wurster coating)
• Tabletting (cores for various tablet types, e.g. bi-layer tablets)
• Encapsulation
• Coating (aqueous and organic)
• Imprinting

Our service for packaging of solids includes blister in various formats (PVC, PVC/PVDC, Alu/Alu, Aclar) , bottles (glass, PE), wallet packaging and stick packs.

Our technology portfolio for the production of liquids and semisolids comprises liquids, liquid preparations and semisolids.

Liquids:

• Bottles
• Sachets
• Ampoules
• Vials
• Cartridges and syringes

Liquid preparations:

• Blow fill seal (gels, liquids)
• Nasal sprays

Semisolids:

• Stick packs
• Ointments
• Suppositories
• Foil packs

Nycomed's technology for the production of steriles encompasses lyophilization and aseptic spray drying.

ACTIVE PHARMACEUTICAL INGREDIENT MANUFACTURE

In order to successfully meet the needs of this market, a company must have the ability to provide the relevant expertise, along with the production technology and the right capacities, providing not only long-term supply but also the possibility to increase production unexpectedly to meet market demands.

Nycomed gives access to its long lasting pharma expertise and capacities in Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) manufacture, including consulting from concept to market, as well as regulatory approval for the world-wide distribution of client products, including the USA and Japan.

Our services for chemical manufacture are:

• Production of active ingredients and key starting materials/intermediates
• Focus/technological expertise: high potent APIs, cytotoxics, narcotics, nucleosides, hydrogenation, halogenated solvents

PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURE, PRODUCTION AND PACKAGING

For Nycomed, full service in contract manufacturing extends beyond production and packaging. It means supporting the clients throughout the entire process, assisting in development and scale-up, and providing support in regulatory documentation meeting global standards.