The website will probably be residence to 250 associates. An opening ceremony will probably be held on May 31 adopted by a LinkedIn Live Broadcast on June 2.
“Cell and gene therapies have the potential to change the global healthcare landscape,” mentioned Catarina Flyborg, vp, cell and gene remedy, Cytiva. “Our new facility in Grens will enable us to meet global demand for our products, while working with our customers to meet their immediate training and development needs. This facility brings us another step closer to our vision where access to life-changing therapies transforms human health.”
The present website in Eysins will proceed operations by means of 2023, whereas full manufacturing transfers to the brand new website in Grens.
Inside the ability
The facility will quadruple Cytiva’s capability for manufacturing Sefia, Sepax and Xuri consumable merchandise with two new ISO class 7 cleanrooms, making certain that elevated future demand might be met. The design of the ability adopts GMP ideas from uncooked supplies getting into the constructing, by means of the manufacturing course of, to the cargo of completed merchandise.
Cytiva continues to combine sustainability into its operations. The new website has been constructed to Swiss Minergie requirements, a sustainable constructing customary acknowledged globally for its effectiveness in reaching decrease vitality and useful resource consumption. Building to this customary gives high-grade, air-tight constructing envelopes and the continual renewal of air within the constructing utilizing an energy-efficient air flow system. The constructing is powered by 100% renewable electrical energy and has roof mounted photo voltaic panels. It additionally has 5 distinct HVAC techniques that optimize environmental situations in every useful space. Cytiva is investigating using ‘dynamic’ cleanroom controls which might additional cut back energy utilization by as much as 60%.
A R&D facility is positioned on the primary ground, which consists of a number of laboratories designed for multidisciplinary engineering and cell biology processing capabilities. The buyer coaching middle, positioned on the second ground, is a totally outfitted 100 sq. meter BSL2 laboratory that can allow course of and software coaching with Cytiva devices, consumables and software program. Cytiva associates can even have the ability to use this facility to develop data and abilities on present and future merchandise and processes.