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Increased demand sees Onyx add to Sunderland base

Sunderland-based Onyx Scientific is set to expand the size of its North East base by 30%.

The contract research and manufacturing organisation is investing in an additional site located adjacent to its existing facility in Sunderland to help its pharmaceutical clients accelerate new drug products from discovery to production.

Its additional space will primarily be used to increase its laboratory facilities, good manufacturing practice (GMP) suites and allocate space for storage of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and GMP materials.

As part of the expansion initiative, Onyx Scientific has already recruited several more chemists to support clients’ pre-clinical, development and early stage API manufacturing projects.

Denise Bowser, commercial director at Onyx Scientific, said: “It’s been a challenging few years for contract service firms across the industry but our team here in Sunderland has continued to work hard to always exceed clients’ expectations, which has led to a very loyal customer base and regular repeat business.

“Although we have come to the end of a very positive year, we have never been a firm to rest of our laurels. With the support of our parent company Ipca Laboratories in India, we are very much investing in our physical capacity, equipment and technical resource.

“We remain committed to supporting drug developers across the globe with routine chemistry and overcoming early stage complex chemistry challenges to allow them to progress, scale-up and meet clinical deadline with robust lead candidates.”

This latest venture follows investment last year to grow its GMP space following an increase in demand for its small scale API manufacturing services.

Established back in 2000, Onyx Scientific provides clients with the development and production of APIs for use in clinical trials under current GMP regulations.

Denise added: “The decision to expand into an additional building has been driven by increased demand for GMP services as well as continuous flow projects and solid state chemistry, which has fully utilised our resources over the past 12 months.”

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