Basel

On 1.500 sqm, Celonic is located right in the heart of Basel city, in the broader triangle where France, Germany and Switzerland intersect. The facility comprises 400 sqm clean rooms for GMP production with an option for further expansion. For GMP analytics and R&D extensive lab capacities are reserved and equipped according to state-of-the-art standard. Broad office rooms complete the voluminous facility.
 
The GMP production can be offered up to 1.000 l scale in a wave bioreactor and up to 300 l in a stirred vessel. Further bioreactors in 2, 10, 20, 50 und 75 l scale (wave and stirred vessel) are available. An extension of the facility towards a 2.000 l stirred vessel is currently in preparation.

For downstream processing, state-of-the-art equipment is applied, e.g. tangential flow filtration for cell separation (Pall) and Akta-based Systems (GE Healthcare) for chromatographic separation. In analytics, we provide all analytic devices necessary for characterisation of intermediates (e.g. HPAEC-PAD for glycoanalytics).

Thus, Celonic’s Basel facility is fully equipped for production of biopharmaceutical products for clinical trials and commercial market. The clean rooms comprise 2 independent production suites for drug manufacture.