GE Healthcare Life Sciences Allies with Pharmadule Morimatsu to Expand KUBIO

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November 25th 2019

Uppsala Sweden: – The KUBio “factory in a box” is expanding to accelerate the accessibility of biotherapeutics on a global scale. Additional modular platforms will be introduced in 2020 allowing biopharma manufacturers to quickly scale up vaccines, viral vector-based therapies, and other novel modalities.

To do so, GE Healthcare Life Sciences will work closely with Pharmadule Morimatsu, a company specializing in the design and manufacture of modular facilities. Pharmadule will provide engineering design, construction, installation, and validation services, based on GE Healthcare Life Sciences’ proprietary design.

About Pharmadule Morimatsu

Pharmadule Morimatsu designs and builds turnkey production facilities and process equipment’s for the pharma – biopharma Industries and also for the FMCG area (Fast Moving Consumer Goods). Pharmadule services extend from conceptual design to IQOQ qualifications completion, offering a one-stop-shop suite of services that include: Front-End Design & Pre-Engineering, Detailed Design, Fabrication, Quality Assurance (QA) and Validation Management.

The company was founded in September 1986 by engineer Clas Wallenborg whose vision was to use the same basic modular design techniques and technology used to build specialized spaces for offshore oil platforms to be able to deliver ‘ready-made’ hygienic pharmaceutical production and laboratory facilities worldwide. These could be designed and fabricated centrally under hi-tech controlled conditions and transported to pharma sites all over the world for final assembly and erection.

Since then, Pharmadule has successfully delivered more than 70 production facilities worldwide for clients including Eli Lilly, Merck, Baxter, GlaxoSmithKline, Genentech, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, forging The Pharmadule Way as a way of offering unique value and reassurance to customers, with off-site construction and modular design concepts to provide very high predictability of on time, on budget delivery and consistent high quality, regardless of final location.

Since 2011, Pharmadule has been part of the Morimatsu Group of Japan, which specializes in process equipment, forming Pharmadule Morimatsu AB, headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. The company also has a strong presence in Asia with engineering and manufacturing facilities in Shanghai, providing an enhanced service for clients in new markets.