Spray drying specialist to invest €19 million in GMP facility expansion

Micro-Sphere expands GMP facility in Switzerland.

Investment is in response to increased market for spray drying and capsule filling for dry powder inhalers.

The investment, which is in response to increased market for spray drying and capsule filling for dry powder inhalers, will provide the CDMO with greater capacity to handle larger quantities of pharmaceutical powders and commercial volumes of finished dosage forms.

The expanded facility, which will see the GMP production area triple in size, will be home to some of the world’s leading spray drying and capsule filling technologies, which will be operational by Q4 2017.

Micro-Sphere founder and president of the Board, Dr. Michele Müller, said: “Both GMP spray drying as a particle engineering technique and low dose capsule filling are becoming increasingly popular across the market and at present there are very few CDMOs offering this level of capability, especially with our level of niche expertise.

“From our expanded facility, we will continue to produce both clinical and commercial products, with a particular specialism in dry powder inhalers. We look forward to unveiling the technologies we will be adding to our facility in the coming months and what I can promise is it will be some of the finest equipment in the world.”