The document summarizes new pharmaceutical services offered by the Weyer Group, an engineering and consulting firm with over 30 years of experience in industries including chemicals, petrochemicals, and waste disposal. It has provided services to the pharmaceutical industry for over 20 years, and recently expanded its offerings to include design and qualification of production facilities for active pharmaceutical ingredients and final dosage forms. The Weyer Group can now offer an integrated set of design, engineering, and qualification services for pharmaceutical projects through its expertise and partnerships with other specialists in areas like building services. Its goal is to support clients with high quality services based on extensive experience in the pharmaceutical industry.

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New pharmaceutical services
The small city of Basel is very well known within the pharmaceutical and the fine chemistry industries – far beyond
Switzerland’s and Europe’s boarders. Those industry branches have a 200 years history in the town at the southern Rhine,
and the weyer group has participated in it for over 20 years.
À Long tradition Switzerland, for example exhaust air and and construction of biotechnological
gas treatment facilities and tank farms, just and pharmaceutical facilities, decided in
Internationally speaking, the weyer group
as well audits, consultancies and designs autumn of 2009 to give up the operations
has been active for over 30 years for indus-
regarding the implementation of the ATEX in the region of Basel, after 10 successful
trial clients, among others of the chemical,
guidelines. years there. More than half of the
petrochemical, petroleum, logistics and
employees of that office decided then to
waste disposal sectors. Furthermore, the
group has been providing engineering and
ÀExpansion towards join the weyer group in Switzerland. They
pharmaceutical services brought with them up to more than 30
consulting services for the pharmaceutical
years of experience in designing facilities
industry in the areas of plant safety and en- In 2010 the weyer group expanded
for pharmaceutical and fine chemical
vironment protection, as well as design and its range of services for clients of the
production, as well as more than 15 years
construction of tank farms for solvents and pharmaceutical sector. Beside the services
in the pharmaceutical qualification. The
other dangerous liquids. Already since the that have been rendered until today,
group could therefore enter this market
end of the eighties, the weyer group has the group extended its portfolio with
faster than originally planned.
successfully executed projects for clients in the design and qualification services for
production facilities for APIs and final
dosage forms. Those services will be
provided initially exclusively by Weyer
und Partner (Schweiz) AG for all clients
in Switzerland, Austria and Germany, as
well as in non-German-speaking countries.
Linde-KCA-Dresden GmbH, Dresden,
Germany, an affiliate company of the Linde In addition, the weyer group and Linde-
Group that operates in the area of design KCA-Dresden concluded a cooperation
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agreement that makes possible to execute • Validation support consulting services for the classic process
larger projects. As Linde-KCA-Dresden, the • Supplier audits segments as well as for the building
weyer group sets the greatest importance The weyer group offers its range of servi- services areas. Those are HVAC, electrical
to the quality of the services and will ces for the following business areas and engineering, control & instrumentation,
guarantee this by continuous further client groups: and automation. In the areas process
education and coaching of the employees, • Facilities for the production of phar- control & instrumentation and automation,
as well as strict utilisation of the quality maceutical final dosage forms as well as architecture and civil engineering,
management system. • Facilities for the production of active the weyer group work together with
pharmaceutical ingredients and fine leading companies of the Basel region. All
À Our range of pharma- chemicals those expertise combined and flanked by
ceutical services • Qualification the weyer group’s long experience and
The weyer group pharmaceutical engi- • Manufacturers and developers of phar- competence in the fields of plant safety,
neers render the same high quality ser- maceutical products environment protection and authorities
vices as they used to do before at Linde- • Manufacturers and developers of fine engineering, make possible that the weyer
KCA-Dresden and - prior to their time chemicals group assumes the general planner role,
there, at other engineering - pharmaceu- • Manufacturers of gases and other direct depending of the project size.
tical and fine chemical companies: contact media for pharmaceutical clients
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Design of pharmaceutical facilities
• Feasibility and concept studies À United to success
• Basic design
Together with chosen building services
• Detail design
partners, who are experienced in Quality is not merely accidental
• Procurement support
designing pharmaceutical facilities, the
• Construction/Commissioning planning
weyer group renders engineering and
& supervision/coordination
Pharmaceutical
plants
API/Primary Secondary
Media & Utilities
production production
Final dosage
Chemical Biotechnological Pure Media Technical Media Energies HVAC Packaging
forms
Pure Gas Gas Cooling
Pure Water Water Heating
Pure Steam Steam
Qualification of pharmaceutical facili-
ties Your benefit:
• VMP, QMP Based on more than 30 years experience in the pharmaceutical industry, the weyer
• Planning, execution & supervision/coor- group provides you with high quality pharmaceutical consulting and engineering
dination of DQ, IQ, OQ, PQ services. Enhanced by the group’s plant safety, environment protection and authorities
• Planning & execution/moderation of engineering expertise - as well by the expertise of our specialized partners - you are
risk analysis granted an integral support for you projects.
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The weyer group is a group-independent corporate association of engineering and con-
sulting companies in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland and the Netherlands.
Since its establishment over 30 years ago, the weyer group has developed a wide range of
expertise which has always been based on the expectations and wishes of our clients.
References:
À Bachem AG À Mepha Pharma AG
À Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma À Novartis Pharma AG
GmbH & Co. KG À Novartis Pharma Schweizerhalle AG
À Carbogen Amcis AG À Novartis Pharma Stein AG
À Cilag AG À Santhera Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
À F. Hoffmann - La Roche AG À Siegfried AG
À Grünenthal Protochemicals AG À Tillotts Pharma AG
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