International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering has announced Pfizer Ireland Pharmaceuticals, the 2014 Operational Excellence Award winner, as the 2014 Facility of the Year Award (FOYA) Overall Winner. John Sisk & Son are proud to be part of the Pfizer's successful team.

Exemplifying excellence and innovation in pharmaceutical and biotechnology  manufacturing,  the Pfizer Network Strategy Implementation  (NSI) Expansion Capacity project involved a challenge to add capacity by re-purposing an existing manufacturing space for a new vaccine suite and a new multiproduct small-to-medium scale drug substance bioprocess suite at the Pfizer Ireland Pharmaceuticals  Grange Castle plant in Clondalkin, South County Dublin.
 
Throughout the project, the team utilized a Lean Management Strategy and a 5S program in the design process to ensure flow and operations. Additionally, a Six Sigma toolkit was developed for all project personnel, and all production processes were value stream-mapped.  The project team also ensured the new manufacturing suites included the latest technologies  (i.e. EBR, PAT and Disposable Bag).
 
Pfizer Ireland’s vision of empowerment and operational excellence enabled the company to produce a world-class manufacturing environment and achieve needed capacity expansion in Biotech operations on an aggressive timeline by managing the challenges of maintaining supply during the demolition of existing facilities, new construction, start-up and integration activities.
 
Opened in 2005, the Pfizer Ireland Pharmaceuticals  Grange Castle plant is located on a 90-acre site in Clondalkin, South County Dublin, and focuses on the manufacturing of Biopharmaceuticals and Vaccines. The plant currently has 1,000 full-time employees.
 
For full details about this truly innovative project, please read the feature story in the January/February 2015 issue of Pharmaceutical Engineering Magazine.

 
Construction Manager & Main/General Contractor
John Sisk & Son Limited, Dublin, Ireland
 
Designer/Architect & Engineer
Jacobs Engineering Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
 
For more details, please visit www.FacilityoftheYear.org.