WuXi Biologics announced its new drug product (DP) facility – named DP8 – located in Hangzhou, China, has completed the first batch of GMP manufacturing. The DP8 facility is the tenth operational drug product facility in WuXi Biologics' global network. The single-use-system-based DP8 facility features SA25 robotic, sterile filling technology with two completely segregated filling lines, as well as an aseptic formulation isolator dedicated to the preparation of alum-adjuvanted vaccines.

It also has mRNA-LNP encapsulation technologies, with a processing capacity of 10 L per hour. The DP8 facility provides flexible dosage forms, including vials (2R to 20R) and prefilled syringes (1 mL to 3 mL, long and normal). Combining the DP8 facility with the company's operational development labs and drug substance facility (MFG14) located in the same area, WuXi Biologics can provide end-to-end solutions from DNA to drug substance manufacturing and drug product fill & finish for various modalities – such as enzymes, antibody fragments, recombinant proteins, virus-like particle (VLP), plasmid DNA and mRNA – within a centralized region.