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Cangene has considerable expertise in the manufacture of bulk API for a variety of biopharmaceutical product types including plasma-derived and recombinant proteins, plasmid DNA and liposomes. These services are provided at the clinical or commercial scale under full cGMP.

Cangene operates two commercial API facilities in Winnipeg, Manitoba:

  • an FDA-licensed fractionation/filling facility for parenteral drugs; and
  • a biopharmaceutical facility capable of manufacturing microbial-derived products up to the kilogram scale.

The 45,000 square foot fractionation/filling facility is designed for the manufacture of plasma-derived hyperimmunes and other parenteral products up to the 1000 L scale. The 25,000 square foot biopharmaceutical facility has fermentation and downstream processing capacity up to the 2100 L working volume scale.

These multi-product manufacturing facilities are designed to maximize the flexibility of processing operations. Processing capabilities include:

  • fermentation
  • cell breakage
  • chromatography
  • centrifugation
  • ultrafiltration
  • prep scale HPLC
  • buffer preparation