Kaneka Corporation has installed continuous manufacturing equipment for pharmaceutical products at Kaneka Singapore Co, with commercial production under cGMP already underway.

In the field of small molecule pharmaceutical products, recent demands have begun to  trend toward an increased number of more diversified and smaller volume targets. With these changes, more efficient production technology is needed to address the broad range of targets now required. The installed equipment is a Kaneka designed reactor that allows diversity of application through the ability to select the relevant parameters of the reaction tubing based on laboratory and scale-up research providing the highest performance of reactions. 

Kaneka has capability from process development to commercial production with excellent quality assurance, and now aims to expand its offering in the healthcare field by utilizing this new technology.