ISPE Announces 2024 Facility of the Year Awards Submission Finalists
19 March, 2024
The 2024 Facility of the Year Awards (FOYA) submission finalists are announced at the 2024 ISPE Aseptic Conference, taking place in Vienna, Austria, and virtually.
ISPE is pleased to announce the 2024 Facility of the Year Awards (FOYA) submission finalists that met the rigorous qualifications and requirements of the FOYA program.
FOYA is the premier global awards program recognizing innovation and creativity in manufacturing facilities that serve the regulated healthcare industry. The award-winning projects selected by the FOYA program demonstrate excellence in facility design, construction, and operations, setting the standard for pharmaceutical facilities of the future. Winners are recognized across the categories of Innovation, Operations, Supply Chain, Pharma 4.0™, and Social Impact.
The announcement of ISPE's FOYA submission finalists is step one to recognizing and celebrating innovation in pharmaceutical manufacturing plant design and qualification. These facilities and the people that bring them to life ultimately transform patient lives. Our ultimate priority is to foster novel technologies and processes, accelerating the availability of transformational medicines to patient populations.
Finalists include:
Beam Therapeutics
Categories for consideration: Innovation
Location: Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
Project: Beam Cell & Gene Therapy Facility
Bristol Myers Squibb
Categories for consideration: Innovation, Operations, Supply Chain, & Social Impact
Location: Devens, Massachusetts, USA
Project: Devens Cell Therapy Facility
Chugai Pharma Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
Categories for consideration: Social Impact
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Project: UK4 Project
Eli Lilly Kinsale Limited
Categories for consideration: Innovation, Operations, & Pharma 4.0
Location: Kinsale, Ireland
Project: IE2b
INCOG BioPharma Services
Categories for consideration: Innovation & Operations
Location: Fishers, Indiana, USA
Project: First to Flex
Novartis Pharmaceutical Manufacturing GmbH
Categories for consideration: Innovation, Operations, & Pharma 4.0
Location: Langkampfen, Austria
Project: BioFuture Plant1
OrchidPharma LTD
Categories for consideration: Operations
Location: Tamilnadu, India
Project: Sterile API Manufacturing Facility (Phase - 27)
Pfizer Asia Pacific Manufacturing Ltd
Categories for consideration: Operations
Location: Tuas, Singapore
Project: Pfizer API Facility Extension
Takeda Austria GmbH
Categories for consideration: Operations
Location: Linz, Austria
Project: beePFS - Prefilled Syringe Filling
Ultragenyx
Categories for consideration: Operations & Social Impact
Location: Bedford, Massachusetts, USA
Project: Vector Gene Therapy Manufacturing Facility
United Therapeutics Corporation
Categories for consideration: Innovation & Social Impact
Location: Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
Project: Lightyear
Wheeler Bio
Categories for consideration: Innovation & Social Impact
Location: The Ziggurat Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Project: The Ziggurat
Zydus Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
Categories for consideration: Operations
Location: Gujarat, India
Project: Oral Solid Dosage Manufacturing Facility
The 2024 FOYA category winners will be announced in person and virtually during the 2024 ISPE Europe Annual Conference on 16 April 2024, in Lisbon, Portugal. Category winners will also be formally recognized at the 2024 FOYA Banquet and Awards Celebration in Orlando, Florida, USA, on 13 October 2024. The banquet, which will take place in conjunction with the 2024 ISPE Annual Meeting & Expo, will feature acceptance speeches from recipients, keynote sessions from industry leaders, and numerous opportunities to connect with experts in manufacturing and engineering.
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.