UPM Acquires Former Pfizer Facility

UPM Pharmaceuticals, a Baltimore, Maryland-based drug development and contract manufacturer, will be acquiring the 500,000-ft² commercial manufacturing facility that Pfizer currently operates in Bristol, Tennessee.

The acquisition of the Pfizer facility will provide UPM with large-scale commercial capabilities for manufacturing and packaging of solid oral dosage tablets and capsules as well as semisolid manufacturing of creams and ointments. The facility will also provide for technology-transfer support, pilot-plant scale-up capabilities, analytical and microbial testing as well as dedicated suites for potent compounds. As part of the purchase, UPM will continue to manufacture Pfizer’s current portfolio of products within the facility for two years. The new facility will give UPM the capability to annually produce 3.5 billion tablets and 680 million capsules.