CRANBURY, N.J., Oct. 5, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Porton Fine Chemicals, Ltd., [Shenzhen Stock Code 300363], a China-based contract development and manufacturing organization [CDMO] serving the global pharmaceutical industry is pleased to announce the launch of Porton USA's Technology Center [PTC] based in Cranbury, NJ.  This new venture will serve the US biopharmaceutical industry, offering drug development and cross-lifecycle research, development and manufacturing solutions from a strategic location convenient to East Coast and West Coast-based companies. 

Featuring state of the art assets and experienced process scientists, engineers, analysts and support staff, PTC aims to deliver innovative solutions and compelling value on complex synthetic routes, next-generation processes and assembly of specialized molecules such as highly potent advanced intermediates, APIs and linker-payload components of Antibody-Drug Conjugates [ADCs].  In addition, PTC will support all aspects of non-GMP and GMP small molecule intermediate and API development, optimization and synthesis.
 

(Dr. Todd Nelson, General Manager, Porton USA Technology Center)

Today's pharmaceutical company pipelines are dominated by complex molecules, posing formidable synthesis, scale-up and containment challenges.  According to Dr. John Dillon, Senior Vice President of Porton Fine Chemicals and President of Porton USA, ADCs exemplify a "Perfect Storm" of manufacturing difficulties: unstable APIs and toxic intermediates requiring high containment, complex analytics, purifications and parenteral requirements.  "We see high demand for this type of niche process development and manufacturing as companies seek innovative external manufacturing partners who can bring considerable experience to reliably execute such projects, many of which involve single batches representing >$1 million in value." 

As a trusted, top-tier China-based CDMO, Porton Fine Chemicals [PFC] has been serving the global pharmaceutical industry since 2005.  Porton produces a wide range of custom regulatory starting materials and drug intermediates for many of the best-known pharmaceutical companies in the US, EU and Asia-Pacific regions.

(Some of Porton’s Key Executives at the Opening Ceremony)

"Building on our excellent track record and feedback from our customers, PTC is a key element of our global strategy to offer advanced technologies, diversify our service offerings, and enhance our engagement with customers from close proximity, ultimately helping them more efficiently meet their drug development and commercialization goals.  It will also complement our new Shuitu Technology Center [Chongqing, China] to be opened by end-2016," say Drs. Andrew Xu, President and Co-Chairman of PFC and Raj Iyer, Chief Business Officer, PFC.

Conveniently located off the NJ Turnpike [I-95] near many of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies in NJ, and with easy flight access to the innovation hotbeds of Boston and California, PTC can be reached in 45 minutes by road from Newark International Airport. The facility is expected to house approximately 75 employees at full strength.

"Leveraging the critical mass of experienced process chemists in this region and integrating PTC's CRO capabilities with PFC's manufacturing expertise centered in a lower cost geography such as China will offer powerful end-to-end solutions and seamless supply chains to the biopharmaceutical community," according to Dr. Todd Nelson, Vice President, Porton USA and General Manager, PTC.