Pharma

What Schlotter (Irl) Ltd offers the Pharmaceutical Sector

Market background

Currently thirteen (13) of the top fifteen (15) companies in the world have substantial operations in Ireland. In total there are eighty-three (83) facilities employing more than 17,000 people in Ireland.

6 out of 10 and 12 out of 25 of the world’s top selling drugs are produced in Ireland including Lipitor and Zocor. Products are manufactured for global markets.

Many of the pharmaceutical companies in Ireland have established multiple activities in Ireland, including:

• Fermentation e.g. Schering-Plough, Wyeth
• API e.g. Merck, Pfizer, Yamanouchi


• Sterile Fill/Finish e.g. Genzyme, Allergan
• Formulation e.g. Wyeth, Takeda, Pfizer
• Shared Services/ Supply Chain Management e.g. Allergan, Pfizer, Novartis
• R&D/ Process Development e.g. Wyeth, GlaxoSmithKline, Bristol- Myers Squibb

Regulatory Environment

Ireland has an exemplary compliance record with the regulatory agencies. Thirty (30) pharmaceutical plants are FDA approved with no warning letters issued since 1998.

Regulatory agencies work closely with companies to achieve trouble free start-ups. Certification agencies in Ireland operate in accordance with European and global standard procedures.

What Schlötter Ireland offers to the Pharmaceutical Sector in Ireland

Schlotter Ireland’s long established expertise in chemical sourcing, chemical handling, chemical blending, testing, packaging, labelling and supply chain management offer a seamless contract manufacture solution to Pharmaceutical companies who wish to out-source chemical blending for facility process requirements, along with distribution of Multi-compendial excipients and synthesis pharma grade commodity acid, base and salt/powder chemistries from strategic global manufacturing partners complying with the stringent Regulatory Environment applying to various global export markets.

For further details please contact:

Sean Coughlan Key Account Manager @ scoughlan@schlotter.ie or + 353 45 447441

For more information on Pharmaceutical Sector contact Schlötter Ireland