Vetter groundbreaking ceremony heralds the creation of a new 70 million euro production building

Working together to break ground for the new production building within the Vetter Schuetzenstrasse production site (from left to right): Peter Soelkner, Oliver Albrecht, Harald Bader, Thomas Ruebekeil, Udo J. Vetter, Dr Daniel Rapp, Thomas Otto, Gunther Strothe, Wolfgang Kerkhoff, Christian Schmid.

Upon completion, the seven story building will cover a total of 8,000 m2 and include in its core a cleanroom with supportive media systems.

Upon completion, the seven story building will cover a total of 8,000 m2 (86,000 sq ft), and include in its core a cleanroom with supportive media systems. It will also contain the site’s central material preparation; office space for the production staff as well as a staff canteen with roof garden. The applied technology of the cleanroom will be dedicated to the filling of bulk syringes and designed to be compatible for the filling of sensitive drugs such as biologics and opthalmics. Syringes prepared in the bulk process offer a number of customization options that are tailored to substance and primary packaging material components, and offer customizable low silicone levels and thus, process flexibility. Another central technological element of the cleanroom will be the implementation of an improved restricted access barrier system (RABS) concept to combine the advantages of isolator and RABS technology. The core of this innovative approach is a uniquely fast, by today’s standards, 3-hour cycle and fully automated decontamination of the cleanroom using hydrogen peroxide (H2O2).

“This addition to our Schuetzenstrasse site is an exciting chapter in our company’s history and will again support Vetter’s target to offer its customers the adequate high manufacturing quality for their high value drugs,” said Vetter Managing Director Thomas Otto. “Attaining this high level of quality is of particular significance to Vetter as it represents one of our core customer relations value propositions.”