Elan’s production facility in Athlone, Ireland has manufactured and packaged finished solid oral pharmaceutical products for clients for well over 30 years. Located on a 40 acre site, with over 220,000 sq ft of dedicated GMP grade facilities, Elan has a proven manufacturing track-record with over 20 products optimized and manufactured for clients for 40 countries world-wide. On site solid oral capacity is 3 billion units per annum.  As a global supplier of ethical pharmaceuticals, our facilities have been approved by US FDA, the EMEA and the Japanese regulatory agencies.        

In addition to its contract manufacturing services, Elan provides a range of services including formulation development, analytical development, clinical trial manufacturing, scale-up, product registration support and supply chain management for client products. 

As a contract manufacturer, Elan provides clients:

• Experience, proven track record, infrastructure and capacity in solid oral dosage form manufacture
• Capacity to manufacture up 3 billion units annually of solid oral dosage product
• 224,000 sq ft of cGMP facility 
• Excellent compliance record, FDA/EMEA/JMHLW GMP approved site
• Modern facilities dedicated supply chain support and launch management capabilities
• On site Regulatory Support
• Mature infrastructure 
• Development & tech transfer capabilities
• A focus on partnering with customers    

Elan's collaborative approach consistently provides clients with:

• High-quality product
• Flexible, responsive service
• On-time delivery
• Competitive pricing
• Excellent compliance record
• Efficient technical transfers
• Modern facilities in Europe and U.S.
• FDA/EMEA-approved sites
• Regulatory support
• Efficient inventory coverage      

With new, extended facilities in Europe and the United States, companies can select from a broad range of manufacturing options to fit their precise product requirements:

• Encapsulation
• Tabletting
• Film coating and sugar coating
• Wet granulation
• Direct compression
• Bead manufacture
• Blending Bottle packaging and labelling
• Bottle packaging and labelling
• Blister packaging and labelling
• Vial labelling
• Release testing
• Sterile products
• Controlled substances (through schedule II)      

Development Services
Elan has extensive knowledge in oral drug delivery technologies.

Our range of development services include:

• Formulation and product strategy development
• Analytical method development, materials and product characterization, pilot and commercial stability
• Process development, scale-up and transfer to on-site commercial manufacture
• Full project leadership and management