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“Avantor’s new products are very well positioned
to address key needs of our customers”
In a recent exclusive interaction with BioVoice, Mr Devashish Ohri,
Executive Vice President, APAC, Avantor Performance Materials, shared
details about his company’s operations in India. Devashish provides
executive leadership for Avantor India, including the company’s
manufacturing facilities in Panoli and Dehradun, and he leads Avantor's
Life Sciences commercial team in the Asia Pacific region. US based
multinational, Avantor manufactures several respected brand names,
including the J T Baker, Macron Fine Chemicals, Rankem, BeneSphera,
and POCH brands. Read the full interview below:
BY RAHUL KOUL
When and why did Avantor
decide to produce cGMP-quality
high-purity, low-endotoxin
sugars at its plant in Panoli,
India? Is it only for Indian
market or entire Asia-Pacific?
J T Baker brand high-purity lowendotoxin (HPLE) sugars are
being produced in Panoli, India,
and are available to Avantor’s
global customer base. In 2014,
Avantor developed an innovative
manufacturing process to produce
a new line of HPLE sugars. The
new process was born out of
collaboration with a major
pharmaceutical customer that was
concerned about meeting new
ICH and USP requirements.
At the time, we began
manufacturing J T Baker brand
HPLE sugars at a pilot facility in
Phillipsburg, New Jersey (USA),
while we established plans to
scale up our operations in Panoli,
India. The Panoli site’s location
positions it to serve our global
pharmaceutical and
biopharmaceutical customers in
the most efficient manner
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