Sterinova opens sterile injectables plant in Canada

A new facility focused on ready-to-use sterile injectables has come on the scene in Canada, having been built with help from public funds.

This article is relevant to Alfa Laval in Canada - a supplier of heat exchangers for hygienic pharmaceutical applications. Alfa Laval also supplies industrial centrifuges and filter media separators suitable for gentle bio product handling, and for heat-sensitive media or media containing particles and fibres. 

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Sterinova has opened a $53.3 million ($70 million Canadian) facility in Saint-Hyacinthe in Quebec...

Some of the big [pharma] players, like Sandoz and Sanofi, have sterile drug manufacturing in Canada, as well as some smaller operations, like Jubilant Life Sciences. Sterile injectables is a hot market right now and there has been considerable M&A action in that field in recent years as more drugmakers develop biologic drugs...

 

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About Alfa Laval 

Alfa Laval is a leading global provider of specialized products and engineering solutions based on its key technologies of heat transfer, separation and fluid handling. 

The company’s equipment, systems and services are dedicated to assisting customers in optimizing the performance of their processes. The solutions help them to heat, cool, separate and transport products in industries that produce food and beverages, chemicals and petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, starch, sugar and ethanol. 

Alfa Laval’s products are also used in power plants, aboard ships, in oil and gas exploration, in the mechanical engineering industry, in the mining industry and for wastewater treatment, as well as for comfort climate and refrigeration applications. Alfa Laval’s worldwide organization works closely with customers in nearly 100 countries to help them stay ahead in the global arena.

Alfa Laval’s worldwide organization works closely with customers in nearly 100 countries to help them stay ahead in the global arena. Alfa Laval is listed on Nasdaq OMX, and, in 2015, posted annual sales of about SEK 39.7 billion (approx. 4.25 billion Euros). The company has about 17 500 employees.