Piramal Pharma Limited's Pharma Solutions business, a leading Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO), announced that the company's site in Digwal in the state of Telangana, India, has implemented various tools to unlock Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) manufacturing capacity and support client needs in drug development and on-patent projects.

Since 2019, Piramal Pharma Solutions (PPS) has made or committed more than $30 million in capital investments, both in the infrastructure and the operational culture at the Digwal site, to improve performance, gain efficiencies, and increase capacity to meet market demands.

Peter DeYoung, Chief Executive Officer, Piramal Pharma Solutions said, "We are now seeing the fruits of our labor in applying Operational Excellence practices at Digwal. Coupled with the capital investment we are making, our API capabilities at the site are moving to the next level. Digwal can now take on more complex and larger-scale projects than it could in the past. It's another example of how we continue to invest and grow to serve market demands and work with our clients to reduce the burden of disease on patients."

The Digwal site covers more than 100 acres and employs approximately 825 FTEs. In addition to producing APIs, Digwal provides analytical services and offers anaesthetic drug product (bottling) services. The site has undergone more than twenty successful inspections by a host of regulatory agencies including FDA (US), MHRA (UK), PMDA (Japan) and ANVISA (Brazil) and has been successfully audited by numerous global customers.