Judges Name Four Category Winners Plus Two Honorable Mentions
with Plans to Unveil Overall FOYA Winner at the 2024 ISPE Annual
Meeting & Expo, 13 October, in Orlando, Florida, USA
NORTH
BETHESDA, Md., April 16,
2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- North Bethesda, Maryland – April 16, 2024 – The International Society for
Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) recently announced category
winners for its 2024 Facility of the Year Awards (FOYA).
FOYA is the premier global awards program recognizing innovation
and creativity in manufacturing facilities that serve the
pharmaceutical industry. The award-winning projects were selected
from a pool of impressive submission finalists and span various
categories. FOYA category winners can be recognized for Innovation,
Operations, Digitalization, Supply Chain, and Social Impact.
"This year's FOYA category winners are redefining facility
design, construction, qualification, and operability standards – an
essential step as the pharmaceutical industry continues to invest
in discovery, development, and licensure of innovative medicines,"
said Thomas Hartman, President and
CEO of ISPE. "We'd like to congratulate these corporations that
propel manufacturing facility innovation forward with impressive
international project teams comprised of multidisciplined subject
matter experts, accelerating the industry's commitment to advancing
the availability of transformational medicines to global patient
populations – and we're honored to cast a spotlight on such
inspiring work."
Announced at the 2024 ISPE Europe Annual Conference, category
winners are recognized by the FOYA program for their excellence in
facility design, construction, and operations – setting the
standard for pharmaceutical facilities of the future. Below are the
honorees and their influential projects:
2024 Category Winner – Innovation
Eli Lilly Kinsale Limited
Project: IE2b
Location: Kinsale, Ireland
2024 Category Winner – Operations, Project Execution
Pfizer Asia Pacific Manufacturing Ltd.
Project: Pfizer API Facility Extension
Location: Tuas, Singapore
2024 Category Winner – Operations, Facility Fit
Takeda Austria GmbH
Project: beePFS - Prefilled Syringe Filling
Location: Linz, Austria
2024 Category Winner – Social Impact
Chugai Pharma Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
Project: UK4
Location: Tokyo, Japan
2024 Category Winner – Honorable Mention
United Therapeutics Corporation
Project: Lightyear
Location: Research Triangle Park, North
Carolina, USA
2024 Category Winner – Honorable Mention
Zydus Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
Project: Oral Solid Dosage (OSD) Manufacturing Facility
Location: Gujarat, India
"The Facility of the Year Awards is both a challenge and an
opportunity for industry leaders to raise the bar in an already
innovative field," added Parag Sane,
Executive Director of Capital Projects at Amgen Inc. and this
year's FOYA Judge Chair. "In fact, each year, the competition gets
fiercer. The dedication and ingenuity of these teams is truly
incredible."
The 2024 FOYA category winners will be formally recognized at
the 2024 FOYA Banquet and Awards Celebration in Orlando, Florida, USA, on Sunday, 13 October 2024. As part of the 2024 ISPE Annual
Meeting & Expo, the banquet will feature acceptance speeches
from recipients, keynote sessions from industry leaders, and
numerous opportunities to connect with experts in manufacturing and
engineering.
Register for the 2024 ISPE Annual Meeting & Expo and FOYA
Banquet and Awards Celebration at https://ISPE.org/AM24.
About the ISPE Facility of the Year Awards Program
Established in 2005, the Facility of the Year Awards (FOYA)
recognize state-of-the-art projects utilizing new, innovative
technologies to improve the quality of products, reduce the cost of
producing high-quality medicines, and demonstrate advances in
project delivery. The FOYA program provides a platform for the
pharmaceutical science and manufacturing industry to showcase its
accomplishments in facility design, construction, and operation,
while sharing the development of new applications of technology and
cutting-edge approaches. Visit ISPE.org/FOYA for more
information.
About ISPE
The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) is
a global nonprofit association serving its members through leading
scientific, technical, and regulatory advancement across the entire
pharmaceutical lifecycle. The 22,000+ members of ISPE provide
solutions to complex pharmaceutical industry challenges through
innovation, member and workforce development, and technical,
regulatory, and compliance collaborations in more than 120
countries worldwide. Founded in 1980, ISPE has its worldwide
headquarters and training center in North
Bethesda, Maryland, USA, and its operations center in
Tampa, Florida, USA. For more
information, visit ISPE.org.
Media Contact
Katie LeChase, ISPE,
+1-360-718-9771, KLeChase@ISPE.org, https://ispe.org/
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