A full description of the 2009 Facility of the Year Awards program and how to enter your project.

1. Facility of the Year Awards Program 2009

4. FOYA Success The Facility of the Year Awards program is a truly global event with more than 20 countries represented in previous years. Winners have hailed from Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Japan, North America, and the UK.

5. Broad Scope It is not about size or good looks – it’s about innovation ; in 2006, a $5 million project received a FOYA Special Merit award.

12. Facility Integration Flexibility across a broad variety of processes and batch sizes can be achieved, in a single facility, through creative use of building layout and zoning concepts. Multiple buildings are not necessary. B öehringer Ingelheim

13. Equipment Innovation Early- and late-stage clinical manufacturing and clinical scale-up can be delivered from the same facility Bristol-Myers Squibb

14. Operational Excellence Traditional and current vaccine technology can co-exist in the same facility IDT Biologika

15. Process Innovation Pfizer A facility can be designed to achieve a Design Exposure Limit that does not require the use of PPE.

16. Project Execution F. Hoffmann-La Roche Through excellent planning and execution, all three drivers …cost, schedule, and quality, can be met.

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