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Pharmaceutical API and intermediate development

Chris Lawler, Global Account Director, APIs and Intermediates, North America

Reliably delivered

Located in the heart of the United States, our Kalamazoo, MI facility produces APIs and intermediates that Pfizer uses for its own branded medicines. Pfizer pioneered the chemistry for complex steroids, hormones, and antibiotics and continues to lead the industry by investing in next-generation processes. The American Chemical Society has designated this site a National Chemical Historic Landmark in honor of the innovative groundwork established for many modern steroid medicines.

We offer a compelling approach to complexity, making some of the most difficult-to-produce cortico- and hormonal steroids, prostaglandins, and antibiotics.

Pfizer CentreOne, your API heavyweight. Always in your corner.

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Donnchadh Murphy, Manufacturing & Packaging Operations, Supply Chain, Ireland

Pharmaceutical API and Intermediate development

Utilizing plant sterols, we ferment the early building blocks of cortico-steroids and hormonal steroids, which we convert to advanced intermediates and final APIs via proprietary organic synthesis routes.

With nearly all steps in-house, your supply chain is condensed and your commercial supply more secure. We don’t rely on another company to provide us with active pharmaceutical ingredients; we make them ourselves under Pfizer’s stringent quality system.

Technical and regulatory support

Whether you need a quick response on a regulatory issue or simply have a question about an active pharmaceutical ingredient impurity, you will have a dedicated team of technical and regulatory experts to support you for the life cycle of your compound. We are known for our prompt delivery of documentation, including:

Safety data sheets
Stability reports
Regulatory open file
Declarations

We can deliver the documentation to you, or we can work directly with the regulator ourselves to offer you total peace of mind.

Jim Carr, Operations Lead, APIs & Intermediates, United States

Spotlight on Enviero™ Green Chemistry Progesterone

In 2018, Pfizer CentreOne introduced Enviero progesterone to the commercial API marketplace.

Enviero is the first-of-its-kind, a green-chemistry progesterone that represents a step change in progesterone API synthesis. Developed over 12 years, Enviero is manufactured via a proprietary biocatalytic process based on plant sterols that reduces waste, greenhouse gas emissions and the use of hazardous solvents.

Efficiency and sustainability results have been exceptional, including cutting the carbon footprint of the progesterone manufacturing process by more than 70 percent and eliminating the use of metal catalysts.

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