Cytotoxics and cytostatics continue to experience increased demand in the global pharmaceutical market. To meet this growing demand, Aenova, a global development service provider and contract manufacturer for the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries, is building a new facility at its Regensburg, Germany site. The investment of around €10 million will enable the company to expand the production in the field of highly potent active ingredients and, in particular, cancer drugs. The foundation slab for the new building was poured in March 2022.

The Aenova site in Regensburg has been developing and producing tablets and capsules with highly potent active ingredients such as methotrexate, hydroxycarbamide, azathioprine, imatinib on the former von Heyden site since the 1950s. The new four-story building with a total building area of over 4,000 square meters will include not only bulk production and packaging of highly potent drugs, but also the associated laboratories, development, warehouses and social rooms. This includes an expansion of the production area and the so-called white areas of development and laboratory to over 300 square meters at the Regensburg site. After the planned start of operations at the beginning of 2023, the manufacturing capacities can be increased in volume by more than 1 billion tablets and capsules. An entire floor is also reserved for flexible customer requests for “on demand” production, so that existing as well as new customers can be individually supported in line with their requests.

“With this expansion, we are achieving our goal of strengthening the Regensburg site as the ‘Competence Center HPAPI & Oncology Products’ within the Aenova Group,” said Oliver Schmied, managing director at the Aenova site in Regensburg. “After all, this will not only enable us to better serve market needs and customer requests, but above all to reliably provide essen-tial medicines for patients suffering from cancer worldwide.”

Jan Kengelbach, CEO of Aenova Group, said, “Within the overall investments of the Aenova Group, the new building for highly potent active ingredients in Regensburg is an essential strategic building block. In line with our motto ‘Excellence beyond Manufacturing’, we want to be a reliable and agile partner for our customers in key market segments.”

The new building is scheduled for completion in summer 2022 and occupation in fall 2022. This will be followed by the installation of the laboratories and the new “on-demand” GMP area. Additional customer orders can be produced from 2023.

Visit Aenova at CPhI NA booth 827