Catherine Dick has been appointed to the new role of site manufacturing manager at Aesica’s Cramlington, UK facility. Ms. Dick will be responsible for all manufacturing operations from product introduction through all aspects of the manufacturing process. She will also work to ensure that activities are kept on schedule for products during the remainder of 2013, including the completion of manufacturing on approximately four new products due to be brought on to the Cramlington site in 2014.
 
Ms. Dick brings extensive experience and knowledge of operations at Cramlington, having joined Aesica in 2007 as the site’s quality manager. In 2010, she was promoted to head of Quality for UK API, responsible for the quality and regulatory compliance of all products manufactured across both the Cramlington and the Queenborough API manufacturing sites. Recently, she headed the latest Queenborough API MHRA site inspection.
 
Also, Mark Dawson has been appointed head of Quality at the Cramlington facility. He has more than 25 years of experience in the API industry having held various roles at the site within the Quality Control, EH&S and Warehousing departments. In his most recent role, he spent 13 years as part of the production management team responsible for the day-to-day running of the process plants at the Cramlington site.
 
Steve Barker, operations director, API Business Unit at Aesica said, “Catherine possesses strong expertise and a solid knowledge of implementing work on multiple, quality APIs. The acumen she brings to the role coupled with the collective quality measures we are taking will ensure the company operates to the most rigorous, cost effective and timely manufacturing processes.”