Supplier News: Olon, Avid, Univar & More
The latest from CDMOs, CMOs, and suppliers featuring Olon/Zymvol, Avid Bioservices and Univar Solutions.
Chemicals/Chemical API Manufacturing
* Olon, Zymvol in Biocatalyst Pact
Biologics Manufacturing
* Avid Bioservices Opens New Early-Phasa Center of Excellence
Formulation Development/Drug Product Manufacturing
* Univar Solutions Chosen as Ingredion Pharma Distributer
Chemicals/Chemical API Manufacturing
Olon, Zymvol in Biocatalyst Pact
Olon, a CDMO of small-molecule and biologic drug substances, and Zymvol, a company focused on enzymes, have entered an agreement designed to accelerate the adoption of biocatalysis in pharmaceutical manufacturing. The collaboration brings together Zymvol’s physics-AI powered enzyme design with Olon’s industrial-scale biomanufacturing capabilities to create an end-to-end pathway from enzyme discovery to ton-scale production.
Source: Olon
Biologics Manufacturing
Avid Bioservices Opens New Early-Phasa Center of Excellence
Avid Bioservices, a CDMO of biologics, has announced the grand opening of its new early-phase center of excellence, a 78,000-square-foot facility located in Costa Mesa, California. The new center expands Avid’s development footprint and strengthens the company’s ability to provide end-to-end services from cell line development through commercial manufacturing.
The facility brings together Avid’s core scientific and technical capabilities including:
- Cell line development
- Upstream and downstream process and analytical development
- Investigational new drug-enabling analytical method qualification, and testing
- Early formulation development and characterization
- Integrated tech transfer into Avid’s CGMP manufacturing facilities
Source: Avid Bioservices
Formulation Development/Drug Product Manufacturing
Univar Solutions Chosen as Ingredion Pharma Distributer
Univar Solutions, a provider of specialty ingredients and chemicals, has announced that its ingredients + specialties division has been appointed as a distributor for Ingredion Pharma Solutions, part of Ingredion Inc.
The agreement includes distribution of Ingredion’s global pharmaceuticals portfolio and positions the company as the exclusive distributor of pharmaceutical starches in the US and Canada. This strategic partnership enables ingredients + specialties to further diversify and strengthen its pharmaceutical and nutraceutical ingredients portfolios with a broad range of functional excipients, including direct compression and wet-granulation binders, fillers for tablets and capsules, superdisintegrants, lubricants, emulsion for encapsulation, and gelatin replacements for vegetarian softgel formulations.
Source: Univar Solutions
