Ensuring Supply Security

Expanding Manufacturing Capacity

To ensure supply security for single-use consumables, it is crucial to diversify suppliers, implement robust supply chain management, maintain strict quality assurance measures, and strategically stockpile critical items. These practices mitigate risks and guarantee the uninterrupted availability of consumables. As the demand for vaccines and therapeutics rises, the need for raw materials, single-use technologies, and flexible manufacturing also increases.

In response to the need for single-use technologies, we are expanding our production capacity, and remain on track to achieve an increase of more than 400% by 2024.

Strategies to Address Supply Constraints Related to Sterilization of Single-Use Assemblies

The rapid expansion in single-use manufacturing capacity also requires the need for new strategies to ensure a corresponding increase in the availability of sterilization capacity.

Sterilization Methods and Supply Chain Risks

The biopharmaceutical industry employs several different techniques including heat, chemical, and ionizing radiation to sterilize materials used for bioprocessing.

Can X-ray irradiation be considered as an additional sterilization technology for business and supply continuity?