DPT Continues Facilities Expansion

DPT Laboratories plans to invest another $14 million in its manufacturing facilities. Last year the company completed a $45 million capacity expansion and equipment upgrade for its San Antonio,
TX and Lakewood, NJ facilities.

At its Center of Excellence for Semi-solids & Liquids in San Antonio, DPT will invest about $4 million in additional upgrades to its compounding and packaging facilities, including a washroom expansion
for capacity and process flow improvement. Equipment upgrades will include a new small-scale compounding suite with two new dissolvers, as well as new infrastructure to handle larger deliveries from suppliers to support increased production at the facility.

DPT will invest another $10 million in the Center of Excellence for Sterile & Specialty Products facility in Lakewood. Equipment upgrades include the installation of a new small-volume parenteral filler that is designed to be fully automated, integrated and isolated from vial wash through tray filling. Based on consolidated filling technology, IMA’s Modular Aseptic Compact (MAC) System offers a fully automated line in 20% of the space. According to the company, the MAC System
will reduce the likelihood of introducing microbiological contamination and make the entire process more efficient.

“These facility and processing upgrades expand our capacity and, most importantly, increase our ability to better serve customers with high-speed, cost-effective manufacturing runs,” said Paul Johnson, president and chief operating officer. “Continued investment at this level represents our commitment to maintaining our position as the leading provider of pharmaceutical development and manufacturing services for semi-solid and liquid products.”