A U.S. unit of Japan’s Daiichi Sankyo that makes sterile injectable drugs is expanding its capacity at facilities inn Ohio, pledging to add nearly 80 jobs in the process.
CDMO PharmaForce will invest about $145 million to add 140,000 square feet to its New Albany, Ohio, manufacturing and warehouse operations, according to an announcement from development group Columbus 2020. It will also add about 1,800 square feet to a production facility in Hilliard, Ohio. Work is set to begin in the first quarter of 2018.
PharmaForce is a unit of Luitpold Pharmaceuticals, which also owns American Regent. Luitpold Pharmaceuticals, in turn, is a unit of Daiichi Sankyo.
The expansion comes as other contractors also are beefing up sterile injectable capacity. New Jersey-based Catalent recently agreed to pay $950 million to buy Cook Pharmica to get its extensive biologics manufacturing operation in Bloomington, Indiana.
AMRI has recently doubled its bulk API aseptic manufacturing capacity at a facility in Spain.