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How to Start Planning a Pharmaceutical Factory

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This article is in preparation.

The topic is planned and the article has not been written yet. Nothing on this page is published technical guidance.

What it will cover

This article will examine the first decisions behind a new pharmaceutical plant: product portfolio and dosage forms, sterile or nonsterile scope, capacity and shift assumptions, site constraints, and the regulatory framework of the target markets. It will also explain how these inputs become a brief that design can build on.

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