• Production of critical drugs scaled up with priority supply for COVID 19 patients
• Commitment to price stability for essential drugs for COVID-19 patients during pandemic

Fresenius Kabi is responding to the significant increase in worldwide demand for essential drugs for the treatment of COVID-19 patients, especially medicines used for sedation such as Propofol and pain management drugs. The company is maximizing supply with all compatible manufacturing capacity now dedicated to these vital drugs. Fresenius Kabi has made significant, future-oriented investments in recent years into both automation and capacity in its manufacturing facilities; these are now enabling treatment for more patients worldwide.

Fresenius Kabi will continue to align its manufacturing capacities to the dynamically developing demand resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fresenius Kabi is dedicated to protecting its workforce in all aspects and has introduced increased safety measures for employees across the organization. These safeguards will also facilitate continued operations at its production sites. To ensure uninterrupted access to the company’s medicines, devices and technologies Fresenius Kabi is working closely with governments and public health authorities around the world.

Stephan Sturm, CEO of Fresenius, said: “The COVID-19 pandemic poses particular challenges for our society. As a healthcare company whose mission is to offer better and affordable medicine to ever more people, we have a special responsibility that we will live up to also during these testing times. Irrespective of demand beyond our ability to supply, we commit ourselves to keeping prices for essential drugs for COVID-19 patients stable during this pandemic. My special thanks go to our employees around the world. I am very grateful for their extraordinary commitment.”

 

Mats Henriksson, CEO of Fresenius Kabi, said: “Our purpose is to put lifesaving medicines and technologies in the hands of healthcare professionals and to find answers to the challenges they face. This purpose has never been more important than today. We do whatever is possible to further increase manufacturing output and the supply of urgently needed products. I am inspired by the dedication of our employees who are committed to maintaining the supply of our medicines to patients and their families.”

With virtually all of Fresenius Kabi’s manufacturing staff in China returning to work post government-imposed COVID-19 quarantine restrictions, the company is ramping-up production back to normal levels. With a further stabilization of the situation, Fresenius Kabi also expects a gradual resumption of its sales force activities in China. Even though Fresenius Kabi faced challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the quarantine measures, there was no major interruption of production. Thus, the company can supply the Chinese population with essential pharmaceuticals and medical devices.

With virtually all of Fresenius Kabi’s manufacturing staff in China returning to work post government-imposed COVID-19 quarantine restrictions, the company is ramping-up production back to normal levels. With a further stabilization of the situation, Fresenius Kabi also expects a gradual resumption of its sales force activities in China. Even though Fresenius Kabi faced challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the quarantine measures, there was no major interruption of production. Thus, the company can supply the Chinese population with essential pharmaceuticals and medical devices.

Sodium Chloride 3% is the newest addition to the company’s IV solution portfolio.

Fresenius Kabi and Vifor Pharma have formed a joint venture in China to provide patients access to vital blood management treatment. It will combine Vifor Pharma’s leading intravenous drug portfolio for the treatment of iron deficiency with Fresenius Kabi’s strong and long-year presence in the market to benefit both patients and the healthcare system in China. The joint venture will focus on marketing, market access and medical affairs activities whereas Fresenius Kabi will be fully responsible for the commercialization of the intravenous iron portfolio. The joint company will be 55% owned by Vifor Pharma and 45% by Fresenius Kabi. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Fresenius Kabi and Vifor Pharma have formed a joint venture in China to provide patients access to vital blood management treatment. It will combine Vifor Pharma’s leading intravenous drug portfolio for the treatment of iron deficiency with Fresenius Kabi’s strong and long-year presence in the market to benefit both patients and the healthcare system in China. The joint venture will focus on marketing, market access and medical affairs activities whereas Fresenius Kabi will be fully responsible for the commercialization of the intravenous iron portfolio. The joint company will be 55% owned by Vifor Pharma and 45% by Fresenius Kabi. Financial terms were not disclosed.

With the launch of a Glucagon Emergency Kit, Fresenius Kabi offers an FDA-approved and cost-effective alternative to treat severe hypoglycemic episodes in people with diabetes. This is the company’s first pharma product sold and used primarily outside hospitals in the U.S.

Top government and company officials joined local executives and employees as Fresenius Kabi inaugurated yesterday the major expansion of the company’s production site in the Dominican Republic. 

In Haina, just outside the Dominican Republic’s capital and biggest city, Santo Domingo, the company manufactures apheresis sets. These products are used, for example, to collect blood components such as platelets or plasma. Fresenius Kabi undertook the expansion to meet the rising demand for these high-quality disposables used for critically important donations.

President Danilo Medina of the Dominican Republic was an honored guest at the ceremony. Also in attendance were Mats Henriksson, CEO of Fresenius Kabi, and Dr. Christian Hauer, President Transfusion Medicine and Cell Therapies Division of Fresenius Kabi. 

Mats Henriksson highlighted that Fresenius Kabi is one of the leading international companies supplying transfusion medicines and cell therapies to blood services and hospitals. “We are proud to continue and further develop our decades-long presence in this region, and we are very excited about this expanded facility,” Henriksson said. “This is yet another step in improving the lives of chronically and critically ill people around the world. We all look forward to putting ever more leading-edge disposables and devices in the hands of the people who are caring for patients and collecting life-saving plasma donations.”

Christian Hauer said the plant expansion will strengthen the company’s role as a major global exporter of apheresis and plasma collection sets. “Broadening our production activities in the Dominican Republic will increase our ability to produce and supply essential products for patients around the globe,” Hauer said.

Fresenius Kabi’s first plant building at the Haina site, which opened in 1987, covers around 18,000 square meters (195,000 square feet). The expansion, in which Fresenius Kabi is investing more than €30 million, doubles the size of the site’s newer, second plant building to around 15,000 square meters (160,000 square feet). The new space houses advanced production equipment, plasma kit assembly lines and sterilization units that double the cleanroom and storage capacity. The site also includes a large warehouse.

A global healthcare company specializing in life-saving medicines and technologies for infusion, transfusion and clinical nutrition, Fresenius Kabi has almost 40,000 employees worldwide, including more than 3,500 in Haina. The life-saving disposables for transfusion medicine and cell technologies manufactured in Haina are exported to global markets to make a difference in the quality of life of patients worldwide. 

Fresenius Kabi, Bio-Techne and Wilson Wolf have formed a new joint venture to support researchers and biopharmaceutical companies in the field of cell and gene therapy. The joint venture is owned equally by the three partners and will focus on providing scalable manufacturing technologies and processes needed to develop and commercialize new cell and gene therapies. No other financial terms were disclosed.

Fresenius Kabi, Bio-Techne and Wilson Wolf have formed a new joint venture to support researchers and biopharmaceutical companies in the field of cell and gene therapy. The joint venture is owned equally by the three partners and will focus on providing scalable manufacturing technologies and processes needed to develop and commercialize new cell and gene therapies. No financial terms were disclosed.