News and Events for March, 2008
iSite are a innovative software-plus-services company who help plan, create and deploy IT solutions that bring business value. iSite have a strong track record in solution delivery across Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, Telecommunications, Retail and the Public Sector.
Products & Services
• Business Intelligence and Analytics.
• Custom Solution Design & Implementation.
• Innovation Management.
• Mobile Apps / Text Services / Websites.
• Office Collaboration.
• Project & Program Management.
• System and Data Integration (including legacy systems).
• Software Services: .NET, Biztalk, Azure, Microsoft SharePoint, Dynamics CRM / xRM, Java, Tibco, Oracle, SQL Server, DI-Diver, Microsoft BI,LAMP / Joomla.
Key Benefits
• Proven track record of working in the Public sector.
• Flexible approach to engagements ensures a focus on the client needs.
• Set targets on Business Value – measure before and after the project.
• Teams who work both with legacy and the latest technologies.
Clients
Dept of Education and Science, Dept of Social and Family Affairs, Commission for Taxi Regulation, Science Foundation Ireland, Intel, Vodafone, Cahill May Roberts, Novartis, Smith & Nephew, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Londis.
Partners
Microsoft Gold Partner, Hewlett Packard, IBM, VMWare, Dimensional Insight.
Tel + 353 1 6204400
Address
Unit A1, Hume Center, Park West, Dublin 12
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Zenith provides high ‘value-added’ automation solutions to customers in the biotech, pharmaceutical, power and oil and gas sectors. Zenith works across all the major DCS and PLC platforms and is based in Cork with offices in the US, the UK, Singapore and India.
Products & Services
• Consultancy: FEED, project justifications, project health checks, system selection.
• Systems Integration: Across all major automation platforms.
• Training: Automation, IT, cGMP etc.
• Commissioning and qualification.
• Managed Services: Such as automation.
Clients
Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Merck, Wyeth.
Standards & Certifications
ISO 9001:2000
Additional Languages
German, French, Spanish, Italian, Hindi and Mandarin in regional offices.
Contact Name / Title
Brendan O’Regan, CEO
Email brendan.oregan@zenithtechnologies.com
Web www.zenithtechnologies.com
Tel +353 21 4370200
Address
Portgate Business Park, Ringaskiddy, Co. Cork.
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TopChem Laboratories Ltd. (est. 2000) and TopChem Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (est. 2007), both located in Ireland, offer a broad base of integrated outsourcing services including GMP manufacturing capability for Phase 1 and niche, small volume generic API products, to pharmaceutical, biotechnology and generic drug companies worldwide.
Products & Services
Laboratories:
• Research chemicals: (Own product list of 200 products).
• Reference: Standards and metabolites.
• Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients: R&D quantities of over 600 commercial products.
• Synthetic route selection and development/ Process R&D.
• Technical consultancy.
Pharmaceuticals:
• Development of API processes and products to order.
• Supply of qualification GMP batches.
• GMP manufacturing from grammes to 300 kg/year.
• Niche, low-volume generic APIs.
• Submission of DMFs: US, EU and other agencies.
• Support Services: (Reference standard impurities, metabolite, technical consultancy).
Contact Name / Title
Dónal Coveney, Managing Director
Email donal@topchempharma.com
Web www.topchem.ie
Tel +353 71 9189685
Address
Ballymote Business Park, Ballymote, Co. Sligo.
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SteriPack specialises in the production of cleanroom manufactured medical packaging and contract manufacturing services. The company has a strong global presence with manufacturing sites in Ireland, Poland and Malaysia, with export sales accounting for 70% of turnover. SteriPack provides a fully automated ship-to-stock and kanban system.
Products & Services
• SteriPack manufactures all products in a class 100,000 environment and specialises in providing customised products supplied to customers exacting specifications.
The range of products include:
• Pouches.
• Header Bags.
• Blister Lidding,
• Rollstock.
• Contract Services.
Standards & Certifications
ISO 9001:2008, ISO 13485:2003.
Additional Languages
French, German, Malaysian, Mandarin.
Contact Name / Title
Barry Moore, Sales Director
Email bm@steripack.ie
Web www.steripack.ie
Tel +353 57 9331888
Address
Kilbeggan Road, Clara, Co. Offaly.
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SL Controls provides international consultancy, design, simulation and commissioning services for industrial automation equipment and control systems worldwide. SL Controls has a positive track record with large projects successfully completed for multi-national corporations, including companies in the biomedical and pharmaceutical industries.
Products & Services
SL Controls services are based around core strengths of:
• Automation: SL’s engineers have the experience and qualifications required to create a successful, compliant automation solution.
• Systems Integration: Experience and expertise in equipment integration allows the company to provide comprehensive solutions.
• Validation: SL’s core competencies in technology implementation is providing documentary evidence that the control system operates as specified.
• Overall Equipment Effectiveness: OEE is a way to monitor and improve the efficiency of manufacturing processes (i.e. machines, manufacturing cells, assembly lines).
Clients
Abbott Ireland, Wyeth Medica, Boston Scientific, Intel Ireland, Pfizer Ireland, Zogenix Incorporated, Nypro Ltd, Transitions Optical, Hewlett Packard, Henkel (Locktite), Davenham Ltd, Conaco – Philips, Baxter Healthcare, Mercury Engineering, The Quinn Group.
Standards & Certifications
ISO 9001:2000 certified, Microsoft Certified Partner.
Contact Name / Title
Darragh McMorrow, Finance and Contracts Manager
Email darragh.mcmorrow@slcontrols.com
Tel +353 71 9134040
Address
IDA Industrial Park, Collooney, Co. Sligo.
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Shandon is a clinical research organisation that specialises in pharmacokinetics, bioavailability and bioequivalence and holds an IMB licence to manufacture (import, re-label and release of IMP, investigational medicinal product – medicines which are to be used in a clinical trial).
Products & Services
• Small size results in speed and flexibility.
• Personalised service from highly experienced staff.
• Full CRO service (including consultancy) for pharmacokinetic studies.
• Competitive pricing.
Clients
Small-to-medium sized pharmaceutical companies throughout Europe. Shandon also has clients in the USA, Turkey and Korea.
Standards & Certifications
Regular GCP and GMP inspections by IMB (Irish Medicines Board).
Contact Name / Title
Andrew Leary, Director of Clinical Pharmacology
Email info@shandonclinic.ie
Tel +353 21 4505933
Address
9 John Redmond Street, Cork.
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Sealpack is a leading supplier of quality labels and labelling systems to laboratories, hospitals and the medical device sector and has built and established long-term partnerships with customers based on professionalism, reliability and trust.
Products & Services
• Sealpack works closely with every client to ensure rapid service and high quality products.
Product range includes:
• Bar code labels (pre-printed).
• Variable information labels.
• Die cutting and punching specialists.
• Tamper evident and security labels.
• Hazard warning labels.
• Colour coded labels.
• Cryogenic labels.
• Blood pack labels and tags.
• Special adhesives for laboratory environment.
Clients
Medical device sector, laboratories, hospitals.
Standards & Certifications
ISO 9001:2000
Contact Name / Title
Joe Saul, Managing Director
Email joe@sealpack.ie
Web www.sealpack.ie
Tel +353 1 4534387
Address
Jamestown Industrial Centre, Inchicore, Dublin 8.
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Schivo is a precision engineering business serving the medical device and aerospace industries, including critical assembly, cleanroom systems, machining, fabrication, full product build and a vertically integrated SAP supply chain system.
Products & Services
• High Precision Engineering: Assembly and test: Schivo Precision Limited.
• Sheet Metal Fabrication, Assembly and Test: Schivo Fabrication Limited.
• Full Supply Chain Support: Latest and most up-to-date technology including critical assembly, cleanroom systems, machining, fabrication, full product build and a vertically integrated SAP supply chain system.
• Specialises in CNC Multi-Axis Machining: Utilising highly skilled engineers and is capable of handling complex components using the latest CAD CAM programming. Materials machined include, Titanium, Inconel 718, Inconel 625 and other nickel based alloys as well as aluminium and exotic steels.
Clients
Multi-national medical device organisations (predominantly operating in the orthopaedic, oncology and mass spectrometry fields) and 1st tier aerospace suppliers.
Standards & Certifications
ISO 9001:2000, ISO 13485, AS9100, Schivo Group also has many company specific accreditations such as Rolls Royce (UK and Germany).
Additional Languages
French
Contact Name / Title
Seamus Kilgannon, Managing Director
Email skilgannon@schivogroup.com
Tel +353 51 372010
Address
IDA Industrial Park, Western Extension, Cork Road, Waterford.
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Reconcile Engineering is an innovative engineering and automation solutions provider and is a leader in the development of label inspection systems. The company’s systems can be found in many of the major pharmaceutical, healthcare, optical disc, automotive and printing industries throughout the world. Reconcile offers complete, bespoke and fully integrated turn-key solutions.
Products & Services
• Solutions to current gaps in the market in terms of zero tolerance packaging.
• Conveying and labelling systems for a wide range of products.
• Systems to assist customers in the reconciliation of their production lines.
• Bespoke design and manufacture of complete validated automation solutions.
• Solutions to increase capacity on existing equipment, complete integration offered.
Clients
Bausch & Lomb, GSK, Baxter, Eli Lilly, Catalent Pharma, Seven Seas, Schering-Plough and Arvato Digital Services.
Additional Languages
Czech
Contact Name / Title
Eric Byrne, Sales Manager
Email eric@reconcileengineering.com
Web www.reconcileengineering.com
Tel +353 1 8409619
Address
Swords Business Park, Swords, Co. Dublin.
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Real Regulatory is a team of proven and committed experts in regulatory affairs, providing consultancy and hands-on assistance to the pharmaceutical, medical device and related industries. The company’s team of professionals has many years experience and a wide range of expertise across the spectrum of regulatory affairs activities.
Products & Services
• Real Regulatory has the necessary expertise and capabilities that allow us to deliver on extensive regulatory requirements.
These Include:
• Procedures that relate to the life cycle of new chemical entities (NCEs).
• Devices and diagnostics.
• Known compounds.
• Quality assurance matters.
Clients
Includes small indigenous companies with a single development product, to generic and large blue chip companies with large development and commercial product portfolios.
Additional Languages
French, German.
Contact Name / Title
Paddy Creed, Managing Director
Email pcreed@realregulatory.ie
Tel +353 1 8851710
Address
Unit 9a Plato Business Park, Damastown, Dublin 15.
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Protectas Health is the world’s first dedicated cord blood bank for high performance horses and other animals. Protectas collects blood from the umbilical cord of new born foals and using a patent protected process, extracts valuable stem cells from this blood.
Products & Services
• Collection and Storage of Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSC): FRrom the umbilical cord blood of horses, which is then stored in three cryogenic freezers to maximize security of samples.
• MSC’s: Are a valuable resource for the horse owner and can be used for research or therapeutic purposes.
• When Treating Injuries: MSC’s provide regenerative properties rather than the traditional repair properties of alternatives.
Contact Name / Title
David Crimmins, Managing Director
Email david.crimmins@protectashealth.com
Tel +353 1 2541841
Address
Unit 5 Block 4B, Blanchardstown Corporate Park, Dublin 15.
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Prodieco supplies tooling for blister packaging machines, with all design work and manufacturing done on site in Dublin. Prodieco has many dedicated designers on the team, all using 3-D Solidworks.
Products & Services
• Toolsets: For all blister packaging lines, machines include Uhlmann, Bosch, ima, cam and Noack.
• Includes: Forming tools, sealing tools, dedicated feeders, perforation tools, cutting tools and cartooning parts. The company also offers 3-D design services for blister drawings.
• Six on-Site Blister Machines: Allow us to test and validate all tooling prior to dispatch.
• Two Feeder: Test rigs enable Prodieco to test Simtap feeders and also vertical feeders.
Clients
Teva Group, Actavis Group, Boehringer, Pfizer, Mylan.
Standards & Certifications
ISO 9001
Additional Languages
German, Spanish, Italian, Polish.
Contact Name / Title
Connor Rennicks
Email connor.rennicks@ppc.ie
Web www.ppc.ie
Tel +353 1 4513411
Address
Unit 30 Cookstown Industrial Estate, Belgard Road, Tallaght,Dublin 24.
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Pharmaflow offers a broad range of filling and packing options for liquid and solid dose forms and also provides packing solutions for medical devices.
Products & Services
• Flexible Manufacturing Equipment: Carefully selected to ensure efficient, fast and cost-effective filling and packaging solutions for small to medium batch sizes.
• Acts as a Site: For importation, testing and release and is approved by the Irish Medicines Board.
• Qualified Person Auditing Services: Available and the company has preferred finished product supplier status with a number of EU and non-EU life sciences companies.
Standards & Certifications
Approved cGMP filling and packing licence by the Irish Medicines Board.
Contact Name / Title
Finbarr Cremin, Joint Managing Director
Email finbarr.cremin@pharmaflow.net
Tel +353 67 41575
Address
Lisbunny Industrial Estate, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary.
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Novachem is a market leader in the manufacturing and distribution of an extensive and comprehensive range of engineering, manufacturing and industrial adhesives and sealants.
Products & Services
• Novachem Offers: Extensive range of anaerobic adhesives, cyanoacrylate adhesives, silicone sealants, one- and two-component polyurethanes, MS polymers, casting resins, epoxy impregnating resins and epoxy encapsulating resins.
• Expertise: Extends to epoxies, urethanes and multi-functional light curing systems.
• Innovative Leader: In the global adhesive and sealant market and strives to make significant contributions to the manufacturing industry.
• Technical Group: works closely with clients to identify criteria for resin systems to meet production needs and final product specifications.
• Excellence in R&D: Allows Novachem to be the leading provider of adhesives at a global level.
Contact Name / Title
Ian Millrine, Sales Manager
Email ianmillrine@novachem.ie
Web www.novachem.ie
Tel +353 1 8026554
Address
Unit 4 Dunboyne Industrial Estate, Dunboyne, Co. Meath.
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New Era Packaging is a printer of self-adhesive label products to the pharma and medical device industries for over thirty years. The facility boasts the most up-to-date printing equipment together with state-of-the-art, pre-press origination facilities.
Products & Services
• New Era Possess: Extensive Product Range; high technical ability and infrastructure with the ability to take customer artwork from the design stage and manage it through to the finished product with a full after-sales service.
• Processes Include: UV flexo, Letterpress, rotary screen, cold foil and Braille.
Products include:
• Plain and printed labels/tags up to nine colours (including Braille and Tactile print).
• Sub-surface UV Flexo printed on clear filmics.
• Security labels and tapes.
• Peel-N-Reseal/Dry Peel labels.
• Pharmapak multi-page booklet labels (with and without Braille).
• Chempak multi-page booklet labels.
• Wrap labels.
• Hanging labels.
• Cold Foil and Silkscreen.
• Plain and printed packaging tapes.
Clients
Auden McKenzie, Custom Pharma, Norbrook Labs, Baxter Healthcare, DePuy, Rosemont Pharm, B-Braun, Hospicare, Harmac Medical, Sandoz, Becton Dickinson, Johnson & Johnson, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals.
Standards & Certifications
ISO 9002, BRC/IoP Global Standard.
Contact Name / Title
David Nevin, Sales Director
Email dnevin@newera.ie
Web www.newera.ie
Tel +353 41 9875600
Address
Drogheda Industrial Estate, Donore Road, Drogheda, Co. Louth.
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Multiprint provides and supplies printing and pressure-sensitive labels. Multiprint’s business philosophy is to develop long-term relationships with customers, thus exceeding expectations using modern management thinking, innovative techniques and the latest technology to deliver results in measurable terms.
Products & Services
• Multiprint’s Focus: UV self-adhesive labelling which gives unrivalled depth in understanding customers’ requirements.
• UV Printing: Ensures high quality results and consistency in colour from batch-to-batch/reel-to-reel.
• Main Markets Supplied: Are personal healthcare, drink and fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) sectors.
Clients
Procter and Gamble, Interspray, Abbot, Intel, Kingsland Wines and Spirits, Constellation Group, Whyte and Mackay, Cooley Distillery.
Standards & Certifications
ISO 9002, PS 9000, British Retail Consortium.
Contact Name / Title
John Woods, Managing Director
Email johnw@multiprintlabels.com
Tel +353 1 8138900
Address
Unit 2 Swords Business Park, Swords, Co. Dublin.
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Millmount Healthcare is a packaging partner to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. Millmount provides contract packaging of generic and ethical products, ranging from a complete packaging service to a top-up facility for a company’s own capacity.
Products & Services
• Blister packing.
• Tub filling.
• Cartoning.
• Labelling.
• Repacking.
• Hand packing.
• Millmount Healthcare is a European site of importation for drugs coming off patent. Full tooling and packaging design services are also available.
Clients
Supplier of contract packaging services to major blue chip companies in the pharmaceutical sector throughout Ireland and Europe.
Standards & Certifications
Irish Medicines Board approved state-of-the-art GMP facilities with class 100,000 cleanrooms contained in our two sites. Environmentally certified to BS 8555 standard by STEM (sustainable together through environmental management).
Contact Name / Title
Pascal Keogh, Managing Director
Email pkeogh@millmount.com
Tel +353 41 9842777
Address
Kerry House, Donore Road Industrial Estate, Drogheda, Co. Louth.
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Life Scientific is a contract product development organisation, specialising in plant protection and bio/pharmaceutical product development, specifically analytical method development, validation, formulation and regulatory affairs.
Products & Services
• Life Scientific specialises in developing and registering plant protection products and in providing bio/pharmaceutical analytical development services.
• Full Service Pharmaceutical Regulatory Consultancy: With over three hundred regulatory specialists for on-or-off-site client assignments throughout Europe.
Clients
Clients (70%) are global leaders in the agrochemical and bio/pharmaceutical industries. Life Scientific also partners with early stage product development and virtual/marketing companies to get their products to market.
Standards & Certifications
The company operates from good manufacturing practice (GMP) and good laboratory practice (GLP) certified laboratories.
Contact Name / Title
Nichola Mitchell, Managing Director
Email info@lifescientific.com
Tel +353 1 2832024
Address
Unit 6, Courtyard Business Centre, Orchard Lane, Newtown Park, Blackrock, Co. Dublin.
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Mergon Healthcare specialises in precision blow moulding, injection moulding, injection blow moulding and assembly of technical components for the pharmaceutical and medical device industry.
Products & Services
Mergon is an industry leader in the design and manufacture of bacteria resistant hospital beds and furniture:
• Leader In The Development: Of barrier materials in this sector.
• Benchmark standards: Moulding of custom bottles for the pharmaceutical and medical device industry.
• Manufacture of Surgical Consumable: Expertise is the manufacture of devices and wound drainage products.
• Automation and Robotics Capabilities: Cost competitive solutions on global product platforms.
• Project Management for Major OEMs: Using transatlantic product platforms.
Standards & Certifications
ISO 9001:2000, cGMP, ISO 13485 compliant.
Additional Languages
German, Japanese, Spanish.
Contact Name / Title
Caolan Bushell, Business Development Manager
Email caolan.bushell@mergon.com
Web www.mergon.com
Tel +353 44 9662030
Address
Water Street, Castlepollard, Co. Westmeath.
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Marvao Medical Devices Ltd. is an ‘open innovation’ company focussed on the design, development and marketing of novel disposable medical devices that addresses significant unmet clinical needs.
Products & Services
• Collaborates with Technology Companies, Academia and Clinicians: Connect emerging technologies with customer problems in the form of patented design concepts.
• Partners with OEM and Distribution Companies: Translate these design concepts into finished products capable of reaching the proof-of-concept pre-clinical and first-in-man clinical milestones.
• First Technology Platform: Employs a patent pending tissue in-growth scaffold geometry suitable for use on a range of percutaneous long-term in-dwelling catheters. This technology will enable clinicians who adopt the product to significantly reduce the risk of catheter-related blood stream infections, a common, costly and potentially lethal complication associated with conventional catheter designs.
Contact Name / Title
Chris Davey, Managing Director
Email chris.davey@marvaomedical.com
Tel +353 91 759301
Address
IiBC at GMIT, Dublin Road, Galway.
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