Patheon Inc. is a contract pharmaceutical company

Pharmaceutical company

The pharmaceutical industry develops, produces, and markets drugs licensed for use as medications. Pharmaceutical companies are allowed to deal in generic and/or brand medications and medical devices...

, based in Ontario

Ontario

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, Canada

Canada

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. The company undertakes development, manufacturing and packaging of pharmaceutical products, both prescription (Rx) and over the counter (OTC), for a plethora of pharmaceutical, biotechnology

Biotechnology

Biotechnology is a field of applied biology that involves the use of living organisms and bioprocesses in engineering, technology, medicine and other fields requiring bioproducts. Biotechnology also utilizes these products for manufacturing purpose...

 and medical device companies, at sites in the USA, Canada, Europe and Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

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Patheon's competitors in the contract manufacturing marketplace include Baxter and Cardinal Health

Cardinal Health

Cardinal Health, Inc., is a Fortune 500 health care services company based in Dublin, Ohio. Cardinal Health specializes in health care supply chain services, providing pharmaceuticals and medical products to more than 40,000 locations each day. The company is also a manufacturer of medical and...

, both based in the USA.

Statistics

Patheon sites have in excess of 3000000 square feet (278,709.1 m²) of manufacturing space, accommodating approximately 4600 personnel, five hundred of which are involved in pharmaceutical development activities. Patheon manufactures over 700 products for 250 clients distributed to over 150 markets. Operating revenue for 2005 was USD $698 million, 2006 $712 million and 2007 $677 million.

Dosage Forms, Products

Patheon does not own any of the licences of the products it manufactures and is often listed as the manufacturer on packaging, with the product licence holder's brand name, product name and corporate identity being used.

Patheon's clients include many major pharmaceutical brands including Merck & Co, Novartis and Sanofi Aventis, with biotechnology customers including Amgen

Amgen

Amgen Inc. is an international biotechnology company headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California. Located in the Conejo Valley, Amgen is the world's largest independent biotech firm. The company employs approximately 17,000 staff members. Its products include Epogen, Aranesp, Enbrel, Kineret,...

, and Avanir Pharmaceuticals.

Development activities are undertaken by Patheon Pharmaceutical Development Services (known as PDS), a division of Patheon Inc operating in Europe, Canada and Puerto Rico.

Patheon manufactures products in various dosage forms: oral (tablets, capsules), injectable sterile products (vials, ampoules, pre-filled syringes containing liquids, powders and lyophilisates) and topicals (creams, ointments, drops, nasal sprays, medicated and non-medicated gauze). And also medicines.