ABOUT WEST

West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. is a leading provider of innovative, high-quality injectable solutions and services. As a trusted partner to established and emerging drug developers, West helps ensure the safe, effective containment and delivery of lifesaving and life-enhancing medicines for patients for over 100 years.

GLOBAL FOOTPRINT

Today, West has more than 10,000 team members across 50 sites worldwide, helping to support our customers by delivering approximately 47 billion components and devices each year. West offers a unique combination of products and services, including proprietary packaging, containment and drug delivery products, as well as contract manufacturing, scientific insight, and technical expertise. West’s products range from stoppers and seals for injectable packaging systems to self-injection and reconstitution systems.

SERVICES & SOLUTIONS

Partnering with customers to align drug packaging, containment, and delivery products with services, solutions and support

Analytical Services

The analytical services team has vast expertise and experience in extractables and leachables, particle analysis, container closure integrity, and performance and packaging/delivery systems among other methodologies. As a result of our understanding of materials and delivery systems and their compatibility with the drug product, we can assist our customers in designing studies and in navigating the challenging and evolving regulatory landscape.

West Services and Solutions, LLC, a subsidiary of West, manages and performs the tests described above.

Contract Manufacturing

The West Contract Manufacturing team is focused on serving the needs of healthcare companies by providing a single-source solution from product conceptualization through manufacturing and final packaging. The Contract Manufacturing facilities have established a reputation as a global leader by providing on-time commercialization of projects ranging from product design to complex, turn-key manufacturing solutions. West delivers high-quality components and devices that meet global regulatory, market and patient requirements.

  • Concept development
  • Prototypes & Clinical
  • Process Development
  • Injection Molding
  • Assembly & Packaging Solutions

Device Design and Development

Becoming involved during early phases of product design & development enables our team to optimize your design and ensure it can be built for manufacturability. Our dedicated teams of engineers have the knowledge and experience in industrial design for human factors, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and software development, all to transform your concepts into real solutions. 

  • Design Exploration
  • Product Development
  • Verification & Validation
  • Design for Manufacturability

Drug Handling Solutions

Temperature-sensitive drugs require storage solutions that not only meet the needs of the drug product, but also ensure compliance with regulatory guidelines in a properly monitored and sustained environment.

Within select West contract manufacturing sites, West offers drug handling and cold chain solutions for pharmaceutical manufacturers that are looking for a complete integrated approach to device manufacturing and assembly. 

  • Clinical support
  • Drug re-packaging
  • Serialization
  • Track & Trace

Digital Solution

The DeltaCube modeling platform, is a secure online vial integrity SaaS (software as a service) modeling platform designed to help you make more confident decisions about your vial container closure systems (CCS).