Elan said that its Manufacturing Services offers an advantage in outsourcing, including a broad range of services and expertise integrated to one company that is based in the US and Europe.
Elan Drug Technologies executive vice president and head Shane Cooke said that they were excited to be launching their Manufacturing Services business.
“We look forward to expanding our services in commercial scale-up and manufacturing, where we can offer manufacturing solutions for our clients from our facilities in Europe and the US,” Cooke said.
Elan has named Philip Pratten as vice president of Manufacturing Services operations, who worked in Catalent Pharma Solutions and previously with Cardinal Health, GlaxoWellcome and the Wellcome Foundation.
Elan provides pharmaceutical clients with process design and development expertise, process improvements as well as improved production methods in scale-up and commercial manufacturing.