Five pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities scattered around the globe recently received Facility of the Year awards for significantly advancing the industry’s efforts to produce higher-quality medicines at lower costs.

• Cook Pharmica—Facility of the Year for Facility Integration (Bloomington, Indiana)
• Genentech—Facility of the Year for Project Execution (Oceanside, California)
• Shanghai Roche Pharmaceuticals Ltd.—Facility of the Year for Project Execution Regional Excellence (Shanghai, China)
• Taiyo Pharmaceutical Industry Co.—Facility of the Year Award for Equipment Innovation (Takayama City, Japan).
• Vetter Pharma-Fertigung GmbH & Co.—Facility of the Year for Process Innovation (Ravensburg, Germany).

The awards were presented by the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering, INTERPHEX Conference and Exhibition and Pharmaceutical Processing magazine, which together select winners for the award annually. Companies submit entries for the award program, and this year, the submissions were especially varied.

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