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Oral Solids Expertise From Ascoli, Italy

Oral solids expertise from Ascoli, Italy

At our Pfizer site in Ascoli, Italy, we've spent decades getting your complex OSDs, highly potent medicines and controlled substances from clinical to commercial manufacture across various platforms and release profiles, with a wide range of different packaging lines that include late-stage customization.

Our comprehensive services encompass everything from product and process development for lab and pilot scale to full-scale manufacturing, all from a single, dedicated site.

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Discover how our Ascoli team helped a customer overcome its unique technical hurdles while maintaining an on-time in-full delivery of over 90%.

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Explore our latest review of the market dynamics and drug development trends driving outsourcing decisions, from our experts in Ascoli, Italy.

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In Ascoli, Italy, we streamline the journey of your complex OSDs, highly potent medicines, and controlled substances helping to bring them to the patients who need them most.

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What makes Ascoli’s complex oral solid dose capabilities altogether different?

Expertise in making the complex simple

Approximately 80% of our products are OEB 4–5 and more than 30% of products are controlled substances. Our multipurpose facility is designed to ensure access and quality control across all phases, from the management of API to the finished goods phase.

Committed to quality

Our on-site quality team consists of 150 colleagues focused on assuring that we always meet our rigorous standards. We hold a solid regulatory compliance record, with zero critical observations during regulatory inspections by major regulatory bodies throughout our site’s history.

A packaging powerhouse

We specialize in meeting your diverse needs, offering batch sizes ranging from 5 to 400,000 packs while ensuring full compliance with global serialization and track and trace requirements. Our unwavering focus on these capabilities underscores our commitment to delivering your product at speed.

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Located on the Adriatic coast in central Italy, Ascoli delivers high-quality medicines to patients in more than 100 countries worldwide.

Ascoli in numbers:

OEB 1-5 facility with capacity to support you from pilot to commercial scale
45+ years of proven expertise in complex and competitive oral solid dosages
Strong expertise in the containment and segregation of drug product materials
Five segregated areas for hormonal, cytotoxic and oncology drug product

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Oral solid dose development

The development support team at Pfizer CentreOne offers regulatory intelligence for morethan 150 countries to help you navigate the complexity of compliance and regulatory requirements around the globe.

Throughout the development of your oral solid dosage project, our focused studies, advanced analytical technologies and methodologies enable us to help streamline our processes at every stage to align with current industry standards and aim to ensure the success of your project.

Oral solid dose manufacturing

Our team at Ascoli has experience in over 40 product families in OEB 1-5 and is licensed for cytotoxic manufacturing and controlled substances. We have expertise in containment and segregation and offer five segregated areas for the manufacture and packaging of high potency medicines, as well as approval for clinical supply and primary packaging.

By harnessing Pfizer’s expertise in oral solid dose manufacturing, we can swiftly address any complexities that may arise during your project. Our comprehensive range of OSD platform manufacturing and packaging formats is tailored to strike the perfect balance between product customization and ensuring a dependable and efficient supply to meet your unique requirements.

Meet our Ascoli Pfizer site lead

Rossella Bruni

Rossella Bruni has been the Pfizer Site Lead and AD of Pfizer Italia SrL at the Ascoli, Italy, site since May 2022.

She has been with Pfizer for over 23 years, starting as a Technical Services Project Manager through a postgraduate internship, and since then has moved across several job rotations in different roles of increasing responsibilities in Quality and Operations. In 2014, Rossella was appointed as Operations Lead, increasing her responsibility in 2017 with the Technical Services Leadership in addition to Operations. She was appointed as Supply Chain and OPEx Leader in 2020 before taking on her role as site lead today.

Rossella’s credentials include a Master’s Degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry, a Six Sigma Black Belt Certification and APICS Certifications (Basic on Supply Chain Management; Certified Supply Chain Professional).