Cambrex caps latest addition of continuous flow manufacturing at North Carolina plant

CDMO Cambrex, an early adopter of continuous flow manufacturing, has completed installation of multiple continuous flow reactor platforms at its facility in High Point, North Carolina. A growing number of pharma companies have been investing in continuous manufacturing because of the cost and time advantages of producing small-molecule drugs. Unlike traditional batch processing, which takes weeks to complete, continuous manufacturing feeds raw materials for solid-dose products through a nonstop process that can provide real-time release testing and produce commercial-ready tablets in a day. The addition of the technology at its North Carolina site is part of the company’s plan to bulk up its overall developmental capabilities. It also marks the latest investment at its High Point site and follows on the heels of the completion and qualification of a new 11,000-square-foot analytical laboratory and a 400-square-foot pilot plant expansion with a reactor capacity of 4,000 liters.