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West Pharmaceutical Services

West Pharmaceutical Services designs and manufactures drug delivery and pharmaceutical packaging systems for injectable medicines. The company’s products include prefillable syringes, autoinjectors and wearable injectors. West also offers analytical and contract manufacturing services.


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Corporate Headquarters
West Pharmaceutical Services
530 Herman O West Drive
Exton
PA 19341
United States

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T: +1 610 594 2900
E: [email protected]

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West is a manufacturing and design company that operates in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. The company provides primary container and drug delivery device solutions and partnering services to pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical clients.

The company’s offering includes:

  • Stoppers and seals for injectable packaging systems
  • Syringe and cartridge components
  • Self-injection ststems
  • Containment and delivery systems.

West owns the proprietary Daikyo Crystal Zenith® polymer which can it can use instead of glass as needed for sensitive drugs, such as biologics. The company also serves as a contract manufacturing organisation, with expertise in injection moulding, contract assembly and finished packaging in eight locations across Europe and North America.

West was founded in 1923 and is headquartered in Exton (PA, US). The company as locations in Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific.

PROPRIETARY PACKAGING, CONTAINMENT & DRUG DELIVERY PRODUCTS

Stoppers and seals for injectable packaging systems: to help ensure drug compatibility and stability while supporting operational efficiency

Syringe and cartridge components: including custom solutions for the specific needs of injectable drug applications

Self-injection systems: innovative, patient-centric technologies that are easy to use and can be combined with connected health technologies, which have the potential to increase patient adherence

Containment and delivery systems: including Daikyo Crystal Zenith®—a high performance polymer alternative to glass that can meet the challenges of sensitive biologics

CONTRACT MANUFACTURING SERVICES

West Contract Manufacturing services serves the pharmaceutical, medical and consumer industries with injection moulding, contract assembly and finished packaging services from eight locations throughout North America and Europe.

SIMPLIFY THE JOURNEYTM WITH INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS

West can help customer accelerate the path to market through its Integrated Solutions Program that combines packaging and delivery systems with analytical testing, device manufacturing and assembly, and regulatory services to support customers throughout the drug development lifecycle.

Articles by West Pharmaceutical Services

INJECTION
Christa Janssen-Otten
FLUROTEC® PREFILLABLE SYRINGE PLUNGERS: A SOLUTION FOR LOW-TEMPERATURE STORAGE
Christa Jansen-Otten discusses how West Pharmaceutical Services' FluroTec plungers for prefilled syringe solutions can cope with cold storage conditions to extend drug shelf life and preserve integrity. 
SUSTAINABILITY
Jessica Buday
PRIORITISING SUSTAINABILITY IN PHARMA
Jessica Buday discusses how, in partnership with West Pharmaceutical Services, Corning’s Viridian glass vials are able to simultaneously improve the sustainability and efficiency of pharmaceutical fill-finish lines compared with traditional ISO glass vials, due to their reduced glass volume and proprietary external polymeric coating.
INJECTION
Paul Scannell
NAVIGATING THE TRANSITION FROM MDD TO MDR FOR CO-PACKAGED COMBINATION PRODUCTS
Paul Scannell explains how to safely navigate the regulatory landscape for co-packaged drug-device combination products.
SUSTAINABILITY
Dr Bettine Boltres
THE EVOLUTION OF THE PHARMA ECOSYSTEM: PRODUCT PERFORMANCE NOW MEETS SUSTAINABILITY
Bettine Boltres and Shivani Polasani discuss how pharma can progress towards a more sustainable future, and consider the role that the collaboration between Corning and West Pharmaceutical Services can play in supporting pharma’s sustainability goals.
PREFILLED SYRINGES
Victoria Morgan
RISING TO THE REGULATORY EVIDENCE CHALLENGE FOR HIGH-QUALITY COMBINATION PRODUCTS
Victoria Morgan and Stacy Gates-Rector explore how West is supporting pharma companies with packaging challenges through the supply of high-quality prefillable syringe plungers and provision of a highly co-ordinated technical documentation package.
INDUSTRIALISATION
Jennifer Riter
SUCCESSFUL INDUSTRIALISATION REQUIRES SOLID FOUNDATIONS
Jennifer Riter and Victoria Morgan discuss the importance of choosing the right containment system at the start for successful industrialisation of an injectable drug product.
INJECTION
Victoria Morgan
BEING PREPARED FOR PHARMA INNOVATION IS KEY IN 2023
Victoria Morgan and Ana Marques Kuschel discuss three recent innovations that West Pharmaceutical Services has introduced to enable its partners to respond to specific market-driven challenges, from pandemic-driven pressures on fill-finish productivity to the underlying shift towards biologics and the accelerated growth of home-based treatment.
PREFILLED SYRINGES
Victoria Morgan
REACHING A NEW ZENITH IN PROTECTING LARGER-VOLUME SENSITIVE MOLECULES, FROM FILLING TO SELF-ADMINISTRATION
Victoria Morgan and Eric Kurtz, discuss how West Pharmaceutical Services' Daikyo Crystal Zenith™ insert needle prefilled syringe system meets the needs presented by the healthcare sector’s shift to home-based care and the increasing prevalence of biologics in the pharmaceutical pipeline.
WEARABLES
Lauren Orme
THE EVOLUTION OF WEARABLES – REPRESENTING THE VOICE OF THE ENTIRE ECOSYSTEM
Lauren Orme, Victoria Morgan and Shari Krusniak consider the current landscape for on-body delivery systems and discuss how West Pharmaceutical Services is responding to the demands of various stakeholders.
INDUSTRIALISATION
Dr Barry McDermott
INDUSTRIALISATION AND SCALE-UP OF DRUG DELIVERY DEVICES
Barry McDermott and Shari Krusniak look at the manufacturing processes involved in bringing a new drug delivery system and formulation to market.
WEARABLES
Atul Patel
THE PATH TO COMMERCIALISATION FOR WEARABLE DRUG DELIVERY DEVICES
Atul Patel looks at the evolution of the wearable drug delivery market, including the route to commercialisation and the challenges faced.
PREFILLED SYRINGES
Tibor Hlobik
POLYMER SYRINGE CONSIDERATIONS FOR DRUG APPLICATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION
Tibor Hlobik compares cyclo-olefin polymers and copolymers with glass as the material of choice for prefilled syringes, in particular discussing the benefits of polymers when it comes to biologic drug products and prefilled syringes for use in autoinjectors.
SUSTAINABILITY
Steven Walton
COMPANY SHOWCASE: West Pharmaceutical Services
West describes how it believes that, as a global organisation, it has a duty and obligation to contribute to a sustainable future and that each of its team members, working together, can make a difference.
WEARABLES
Victoria Morgan
EASING PATIENT EXPERIENCE WITH INNOVATIVE LARGE-VOLUME WEARABLES
Victoria Morgan discusses the growing sector of wearable injectors, with a specific focus on West’s own SmartDose® injector and the value of fill-finish services.
INJECTION
Tibor Hlobik
SIMPLIFYING THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING PREFILLED SYRINGES
Tibor Hlobik describes how the use of cyclic olefin polymer delivery systems is gaining in popularity because of the benefits they have over glass systems for complex drug applications, and explains what this advance in technology can offer drug manufacturers.
WEARABLES
Victoria Morgan
HOW LARGE-VOLUME WEARABLES REVOLUTIONISE THE PATIENT EXPERIENCE
Victoria Morgan looks at how the combination of large-volume medicines and the trend for wearable devices is transforming life for patients, highlighting the company's new-generation SmartDose 10 mL platform.
WEARABLES
Victoria Morgan
ALTERING PATIENT TREATMENT: HOW SC DELIVERY CAN HELP PATIENTS MANAGE CHRONIC CONDITIONS
Victoria Morgan looks at the benefits of combining an active pharmaceutical product with a novel subcutaneous delivery device, and highlights some of the partnerships West has with biopharmaceutical and other companies, which have led to market launches of products incorporating its on-body delivery system.
PREFILLED SYRINGES
Royce Brockett
ANSWERING THE CONTAINMENT CONUNDRUM: QUALIFYING PREFILLABLE SOLUTIONS
Royce Brockett discusses how pharma companies looking to use a single drug product across multiple containment options face difficult issues, and how partnering with an experienced containment and delivery expert may be the solution to them.
WEARABLES
Graham Reynolds
THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF WEARABLE DRUG CONTAINMENT AND DELIVERY
Biologics and biosimilars are set to make waves in the pharmaceutical arena, but these drugs can be very difficult to deliver in a patient-centric way. Wearable injectors offer a solution to the large, infrequent dosing regimens these drugs often demand. Graham Reynolds explains more.
PREFILLED SYRINGES
Carl Dabruzzi
MAKING SELF-ADMINISTRATION POSSIBLE FOR ALL PATIENTS
At West, extensive human factors studies were carried out to help create the SelfDose™ patient-controlled injector, designed for patients who have dexterity problems. Carl Dabruzzi, Director, Product Management, Self-Injections Systems explains more.
WEARABLES
Chris Henshall
PUTTING PATIENTS FIRST: INNOVATING DRUG CONTAINMENT AND DELIVERY
Innovations in self-administered drug delivery systems are transitioning care out of hospitals and clinical settings into the home. To ensure patient compliance with treatment is maintained, an easy-to-use self-administration system can be key. Chris Henshall discusses the factors manufacturers should consider to ensure self-injected therapies meet patients’ needs and therefore improve patient outcomes.
WEARABLES
Chris Henshall
DRUG CONTAINMENT & DELIVERY INNOVATION
Chris Henshall discusses how West's SmartDose platform considers the interface between drug, device and patient and how it offers an easy-to-use, reliable and integrated system for managing self-injection.
PREFILLED SYRINGES
Christa Janssen-Otten
RISK MITIGATION, PERFORMANCE & LARGER VOLUMES DRIVE INNOVATION
With a focus on the company’s Novapure® brand, Christa Janssen-Otten discusses the application of quality-by-design principles in the development of plungers for prefillable syringes and autoinjectors.
WEARABLES
Tom McLean
A WEARABLE ENGINEERED WITH BOTH PATIENT & PHARMA PARTNER IN MIND
Tom McLean discusses West Pharmaceutical’s wearable technology platform. SmartDose is a customer-driven, patient-centric device that was recently selected by Amgen for the Pushtronex™ system.
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