API manufacturing

API manufacturing at Axplora

Small molecule API manufacturing is a complex challenge requiring chemistry expertise as well as specialized facilities, regulatory experience & supply chain management.

For more than thirty years, Axplora has offered API (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient) manufacturing services, from process development to commercial manufacturing in full regulatory compliance, to ensure a robust and secure supply chain for your APIs, while reducing risks and optimizing costs.

A reliable CDMO partner for API manufacturing

For more than 30 years, Axplora has been a leading CDMO in the API (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient) arena, capable of providing unique services for drug substance manufacturing from clinical to commercial phases.

  • With an experienced team of chemists, Axplora:
    • Manufactures more than forty commercial APIs & advanced intermediates per year;
    • Has validated more than fifty chemical steps in the last three years;
    • Has manufactured 14 customer products that received FDA approval over the lastfive years
  • What makes Axplora a trusted API manufacturing partner?
    • Outstanding quality assurance track record
    • Multi-site API manufacturing capabilities
    • Expertise in specialized technologies
    • Broad toolbox of classical chemistry
    • Flexible and collaborative approach
    • Complex and multi-step synthesis
    • Extensive validation experience
    • Strength of process chemistry
Axplora CDMO value proposition

Did you know?

Axplora is honored to be a recipient of 2023 CDMO Leadership Awards in four categories:

CDMO leadership awards 2023 (capabilities + computability + expertise + service)

We also achieved Champion status in Expertise and Service:

Axplora CDMO leadership awards champion 2023

First-class API manufacturing services

Axplora offers a full range of CDMO services for APIs to pharmaceutical innovators, from kilograms up to hundreds of tons.

Axplora API manufacturing services

Regardless of the development phase of your API, we offer seamless development and scale-up services to provide robust long-term manufacturing solutions.

To support your drug manufacturing and prepare for your commercial launch, our cGMP services include:

  • Process development:
    • Process development & scale-up
    • Analytical methods development, optimization, and validation
    • Process validation
    • Technical transfer
    • Safety assessment
    • Regulatory support
    • ICH stability studies
  • Manufacturing:
    • Kg-lab, pilot, and manufacturing scale
    • A wide range of flexible reactor trains from 30L to 12.5m³
    • Clean rooms class 100’000
    • 9 API manufacturing sites inspected by the FDA & EU authorities
    • Clinical & commercial manufacturing
    • Continuous improvement

As you work to bring your product to market, we aim at continuously streamlining and optimizing your API production processes to offer cost-efficient solutions.

Axplora API manufacturing
Axplora API manufacturing

A dedicated Project Manager is assigned to each project to ensure the objectives are met (quality, costs, timelines), keep your clinical program on track, and support you throughout your API product lifecycle.

Supporting technologies for custom API manufacturing

Manufacturing your API with us also means leveraging advanced technologies such as:

  • Low-temperature chemistry

We are also a reliable and experienced manufacturing partner for Palladium cross-coupling reactions such as Buchwald, Cyanation, Heck, Sonogashira & Suzuki, and many others reactions.

Axplora API manufacturing reactors
Axplora API manufacturing reactors

Nine API cGMP manufacturing sites

Located in Europe and India, all of our nine production sites have broad experience in API manufacturing. The power of Axplora’s network lies in its ability to manage several steps of chemistry through different sites to provide flexible capacity and increase the security of supply.

SitesProcess developmentcGMP PilotcGMP commercial
Chasse-sur-Rhône, FRXXX
Chennai, INXx
Gropello Cairoli, ITXXX
Le Mans, FRXXX
Leverkusen, DEXXX
Mourenx, FRXXX
Pompey, FRXXX
Raubling, DEXXX
Vizag, INXXX
Axplora API manufacturing capabilities

Our manufacturing plants offer a combined reactor capacity of over 600m3 with a wide range of equipment trains.

Our facilities enable us to offer a multi-site strategy to leverage our core technologies and best accommodate our customers’ needs. For example, Axplora is highly experienced in combining synthesis preparative chromatography and has access to one of the largest chromatographic purification platforms worldwide.

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Our latest investments

Axplora has deployed a long-standing investment strategy of continously upgrading capacities and broadening our flexibility and productivity to meet our clients’ needs and ultimately, their patients’ needs.

Over 90M€ invested in our sites over the last five years