Business View Magazine | March 2020

50 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE MARCH 2020 manufacturer in Texas and Ireland. Together, we have pre-engineered suites that could be manufactured in a factory; modular facilities that can be shipped anywhere in the world and accelerate the delivery of the capital project. We have pre-engineered templates for biotech, cell and gene therapy, and solid dosage manufacturing. “Life science is now starting to uncover genetic modifications that provide a cure, rather than just trying to improve quality of life for a patient. Pharmaceutical manufacturing used to make huge batches of product that doctors would prescribe for patients. Now, depending on the disease, you take blood samples, do cell separation, and modify the cells to find out where the mutation is and eventually stop it. Normally, in a pharmaceutical plant, they would take some chemicals, mix them together in a certain dosage, and that would be given to a patient. But today, they’re actually working with, for instance, a stage-four cancer patient’s blood cells, and that blood might be the very last hope this person has for a cure. That becomes a very valuable product and you have to act quickly to process it. “So we’re seeing a real urgency with companies to deliver a facility. The normal timelines for a facility design, construct and validate could be 18 to 36 months, depending on the complexity. So, going to these pre-engineered modules, manufactured off-site, then shipped and put into place is a great option. This type of construction isn’t perfect for every application, but it does provide a high-quality product to be shipped very quickly anywhere in the world. In some cases, it can be six to twelve months from design to validation and we’re very proud of what we’ve done with this. “Another differentiator is the integrated way we deliver. While our experts are understanding the manufacturing process, our delivery teams are looking at ways to accelerate how the project is delivered, and strategies to leverage the IPS Industries Biotechnology Biomanufacturing Mammalian Cell Culture, Single Use Bioreactor IPS Industries Pharmaceutical Aspectic Filling FOYA IPS Industries Pharmaceutical Aspectic Multi Robot Flexible Filling Line