Contract Manufacturing

Afton Scientific is a highly-experienced cGMP Contract Manufacturing Organisation (CMO) specialising in sterile injectables.

We can Formulate, Aseptically Fill, Label and Package your small-batch parenterals. Our customers include major global pharmaceutical companies and emerging biotechs.

Sterile manufacturing services offered

  • Clinical Trial and Commercial Drug Products
  • Both Small and Large Molecule
  • Inspected by Both CDER and CBER
  • International Standards – FDA, PMDA, MHRA, and EMA
  • Terminal Sterilisation
  • Engineering and Formulation Scale-Up
  • Commercial Batch Record Development
  • Technology Transfer
  • Analytical Support
  • Regulatory Filing Assistance
  • Label/Pack/Serialisation

We know the market is demanding shorter timelines and smaller scale products. Each of our facilities was built with quality, operational adaptability, and manufacturing capabilities in mind. With these attributes at our core, Afton offers prompt production slots and uncompromising quality.

Afton utilises single-use systems as an easy way to ensure no cross-contamination between product fills. Timelines are also streamlined with these systems as they are kept in stock and have been validated during media fills.

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Liquid Vial Filling

Afton’s automated filling lines can support small batches of thousands to tens of thousands with a focus on liquid, clinical, and commercial runs in 2ml -100ml glass and CZ vials. 100% visual inspection of all filled vials via manual or semi-automated inspection. In-house analytical capabilities available to release your product to clinic or market.

Terminal Sterilisation

If your product is not heat stable, there is a regulatory expectation that it will be terminally sterilised. Afton’s terminal sterilisation capabilities include 2ml-100ml vials through moist heat. Our development team will work with you to ensure this is the right fit for your product.

Label/Pack

Whether your clinical product should be shipped bright stock or your commercial product needs custom kitting, we have you covered. Afton has capabilities for individual vial labelling through serialisation/aggregation.

Your Success is Our Success

We focus on the relationship through dedicated teams and frequent client meetings. Through experience, we know that this is the way to a successful product launch. Our “high touch” teams of experts in technical capabilities, engineering, operations, quality control, and quality assurance will scale-up your bench process and guide your team through launch. We measure our success through earning your trust and building an enduring relationship.

Adaptable & Compliant Facilities

Our flexibility allows us to get client projects on the schedule as quickly as possible and maintain robust regulatory compliance. Quality assurance and in-house analytical services allow us control over the release timeline for products to ensure that products hit the market or clinic on time. Our facilities can handle vial sizes from 2ml – 100ml and batch sizes from thousands to tens of thousands making us an ideal fit for small run commercial drugs and clinical trial materials.

Filling Operations

Our filling operations are supported by in-house component preparation. This includes industry standard vial washing and depyrogenation/ sterilisation in a dry heat oven and closure sterilisation in a steam autoclave. To support our filling operations throughout the process, we also have on-site QC micro and analytical services. Afton’s labs will take your product from start to finish with API/raw material release, in-process testing, and release testing for drug product.

For those companies that have in-house filling capabilities, we also offer our pre-sterilised components in a Ready-To-Fill® format.

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TYPES OF PRODUCTS

  • Suspensions
  • Small and large molecules
  • Monoclonal antibodies
  • mRNA

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Frequently Asked Questions

CMO Sterile filling of parenteral products. We offer aseptic and terminal sterilisation services for batches up to ~40k vials.

Ready-To-Fill® (RTF) sterile components (vials, stoppers, and seals). We have stock offerings of popular components packaged in a sterile, RTF kit or we can procure your specified components and process them.

We are inspected by the FDA, MHRA, and PMDA. Our clients also audit us accounting for ~15 audits per year.

Yes, we are cGMP compliant and inspected by multiple regulatory bodies.

Charlottesville, Virginia; Approximately 2 hours southwest of Washington DC and one hour west of Richmond, Virginia.

We ship worldwide.

Absolutely! We encourage customers to visit/audit our site and meet our team.

We have experience filling solutions, suspensions, biologics, pre-clinical, clinical, and commercial products.

We do not fill live vaccines, cytotoxics, high potency antibiotics, optic and opthalmics, powders, creams, or oral medications. If your product does not fall into any of these categories, we can discuss filling it.

We have capabilities to fill 2ml – 100ml vials.

We can fill batch sizes up to ~40,000 vials.

No, we have experience formulating and filling commercial products. We can also provide commercial labelling, packaging, and serialisation services.

We have capabilities for aseptic filling, as well as terminal sterilisation.

No, we do not have lyophilisation capabilities. However, we can provide pre-sterilised components for lyophilised products.

Yes, we have in-house labs that can provide incoming testing, in-process testing during filling, release testing, and stability testing.

Yes, we have capabilities to manage stability testing programs.

Yes, we can provide individual vial labelling or bright stock. We also have capabilities for commercial packaging and serialisation of products.