Honeyman to open pharma training facility

UK-based Honeyman Group will open a pharmaceutical training facility in February 2011.

UK-based Honeyman Group will open a pharmaceutical training facility in February 2011.

The Honeyman Pharmaceutical Training Academy in Barnard Castle, County Durham, claimed to be the first of its kind in the UK, will provide a simulated environment for practical hands-on workshop-based training courses for technicians, engineers, process and equipment operators.

Standing adjacent to the Honeyman Analytical Services Laboratory, the facility will house a quality critical utility infrastructure with pure steam generation and distribution plant, compressed air, multi cycle (porous and fluid loads) autoclave and a microbiology laboratory for associated practical sampling and analysis training.

Mark Thompson, Honeyman Group’s managing director, said: “The industry’s current mass of training providers all offer the same type of training: lecture-based seminars with a variety of guest lecturers, which usually conclude with the delegate being awarded a certificate