
Adragos and Towa to Produce 1.5 Billion Tablets a Year
CDMO Adragos Pharma Kawagoe and Towa Pharmaceutical have agreed to a manufacturing partnership that will nearly triple solid-dosage capacity, shoring up Japan's fragile generics supply chain.

CDMO Adragos Pharma Kawagoe and Towa Pharmaceutical have agreed to a manufacturing partnership that will nearly triple solid-dosage capacity, shoring up Japan's fragile generics supply chain.

Adragos Pharma has acquired Sanofi’s Maisons-Alfort sterile fill-finish site in France, expanding its European manufacturing network and prefilled syringe capabilities.

German contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) Adragos Pharma has completed a €4 million project to install and commission a new, cGMP-compliant liquid drug filling line and associated cartoning machine at its plant in Leipzig, Germany.

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Munich-based German CDMO Adragos Pharma said it has signed a definitive agreement with Sanofi’s Japanese subsidiary to acquire a pharmaceutical manufacturing site in Kawagoe, near Tokyo.