2023
Site Acquisition & Timeline
Brownfield site acquired by Lifera, undergoing significant capacity increase. Planned 2027 EMA Annex 1 / SFDA commissioning.
Biomanufacturing
Commercial drug product manufacturing built for sterile biologics delivery, scaled growth, and global quality execution.
Commercial Drug Product Manufacturing
Lifera is developing state of the art, world class drug product manufacturing facilities for the formulation, fill, labelling and packaging of biotherapeutics, vaccines, and other biologics delivered in liquid or lyophilized dosage forms.
We perform drug product fills across a range of container and closure system configurations, including vials, prefilled syringes and cartridges. SaudiBio, based north of Riyadh, is designed for isolator based, fully automated final drug product formulation and filling under cGMP conditions aligned with leading global regulatory expectations.
Plant 1 - SaudiBio
Lifera Biomanufacturing Plant 1 is a state of the art facility dedicated to commercial drug product manufacturing of vials, both liquid and lyophilized, as well as prefilled syringes.
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Employees
Expert workforce being built in aseptic filling to manufacture Novo Nordisk products as well as other leading pharmaceutical companies.
5,400 m2
Facility
Facility on a 30k sqm land plot with expansion potential, located 110 km north of Riyadh in Sudair Industrial City.
Inside SaudiBio
Advanced Manufacturing
Lifera Biomanufacturing is implementing a platform designed to develop up to 120 million annual units of commercial drug product capacity in liquid and lyophilized formats for vials, pre filled syringes and cartridges, with flexibility for both large and small batches.
Equipment includes high speed filling lines from Syntegon and Groninger, an auto injector assembly line from Mikron, a visual inspection line from Koerber, isolators from SKAN, cleanrooms from KeyPlants, and formulation tanks from Pierre Guerin, supported by engineering design and consulting from Exyte, Pharmadule Morimatsu, and Ramskov Consulting.
Site Specifics
SaudiBio features a washing machine, sterilization and depyrogenation tunnel, filling, stoppering, weight check, automatic in process control, capping, and a restricted access barrier system.
The production line includes automatic freeze drying equipment with online clean in place and sterilization in place processes, along with automated feeding and discharging.
Multiple filling specifications are supported, including 2R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 14R, 20R, and 50R.
A variety of mixing system specifications accommodate different client requirements and batch types.
SaudiBio is equipped with 100% manual visual inspection, labeling, and packaging functions.
All product contact materials are 100% disposable. A sterile filtration process with pre use post sterilization integrity testing enhances contamination control.
Comprehensive environmental monitoring occurs throughout the entire filling process to maintain compliance and product integrity.