Progress-PME celebrates 20th Anniversary

Hoofddorp, The Netherlands: – Progress Project Management & Engineering (Progress-PME), the independent consultancy and management company specializing in the pharmaceutical, biotech and healthcare industries, is celebrating the 20^th Anniversary of its founding.

It was in May 1999 that Paul Linssen created Progress-PME as a project management and engineering bureau to meet the growing need for expert specialized consultancy in the pharmaceutical and biotech field.

Covering whole product life cycle

Since then, the company has grown to become a team of more than 45 people with core skills in project management and consultancy with knowledge and expertise extending across the whole product life cycle, including CMC, engineering & construction, qualification & validation, commercial manufacturing, QA/QC/QP and decommissioning & Lean Six Sigma.

Milestones along the way have included ISO 9001 certification in 2008, extension into total product lifecycle and the creation of a subsidiary, Progress-EXS, offering executive management services.

Recently the company passed the 100 client mark.

To the top, together

Paul Linssen, Chairman of the board, commented: “The best way to summarise our progress is to see how our Corporate Mission has evolved into supporting the life sciences industry in bringing innovative, effective, safe and affordable medicines to the market and to serve the entire range or our clients’ product life cycles by integrating our individual skills, expertise and knowledge,”

“Looking forward to the next 20 years, our vision is to excel in supporting our customers in achieving their goals, employing highly qualified, skilled and experienced professionals. Delivering high-quality and multidisciplinary advice. Our top priority is to continuously train, motivate, stimulate and challenge our employees.”, said Mr. Linssen.

“We want to thank all our clients for their trust in Progress-PME and our team. We enjoy helping you reach your goals and hope to continue our good working relationships with all of you,” he added.

“As we celebrate our 20^th Birthday, Progress-PME is united under our motto: ‘To the top together’ and looking forward to the future,” Mr. Linssen concluded.

About Progress-PME

Progress-PME is an independent consultancy company with customers in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries and in the healthcare sector. It operates internationally, supplying project management, engineering, CMC, validation Lean/OPex and quality assurance services.

Progress-PME’s mission is to excel in supporting clients to realize their business goals, harnessing broad knowledge and experience, combined with focus and flexibility to guarantee high value services and projects and multi-disciplinary progress. Progress-PME offers general services in eight fields: project management, a specialized Quick scan & GAP analysis services helping companies into new markets or products, training, hospital pharmacy support, biobanking, and environmental management.

The company also offers management services covering fields such as Quality Management, Lean Six Sigma performance improvement, Chemistry Manufacturing and Control (CMC) for new pharmaceutical products, engineering and facilities support.

Founded in 1999, Progress-PME and its Executive Services subsidiary Progress EXS are privately-owned companies.

Further information at: https://www.progress-pme.com/home.html