Industries we build for

Fabtech Technologies builds pharmaceutical plants for injectables and sterile products, vaccines and biosimilars, oncology medicines, and oral solid dosage and liquids.

We have worked on more than 760 projects in more than 65 countries. Inside hospitals, we build the cleanrooms and the HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning). One team takes each plant from design to handover.

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760+Fabtech projects, all industries
65+Countries we work in
2000+Installations
200 million+Lives impacted
1000+Life Engineers, our people
30,000 square metresManufacturing footprint

We build these plants so that more countries can make their own medicines.

Each kind of medicine needs a different plant. Choose your industry, or tell us what you plan to make.

Injectables and sterile productsLab & Allied, Kenya
Vaccines and biosimilarsMechnikov, Nicaragua
OncologySudair Pharma, Saudi Arabia
Oral solid dosage and liquidsFidson Healthcare, Nigeria
Hospitals and healthcareBurjeel Hospital, UAE

Injectables and sterile products

An injectable medicine goes straight into the body through a needle or a drip.

So it must be sterile, which means free of all living germs. The plant keeps germs and particles out at every step.

Its cleanest air is at the point where each container is filled.

We supply sterile filling lines for vials, ampoules and prefilled syringes, and we build the cleanrooms around them. For Lab & Allied in Kenya, Fabtech delivered a turnkey project, which means one contract covers the whole job.

It covered oral solid dosage, laboratory and sterile areas. Read sterile facility design and construction for the rooms in order and for what happens at the filling point.

Vaccines and biosimilars

Vaccines and biosimilars are made with living cells.

A biosimilar is a medicine made to match a biological medicine that is already approved. The rooms keep the product clean.

Where the plant handles live viruses or bacteria, the rooms must also keep them inside, away from the workers.

The Mechnikov vaccine plant in Nicaragua was planned at 9,000 square metres. The company hired to build it did not deliver on time.

Fabtech took over and commissioned the whole project. Commissioning means starting and testing the plant.

For each step, from the first cell culture to the filled vial, read turnkey biopharmaceutical facilities.

Oncology

Oncology medicines treat cancer.

Many of them are potent, which means a very small amount can harm a healthy person. So the plant needs containment, which means keeping a harmful product away from the people who make it.

The main tool is the isolator, a sealed cabinet that the operator works in through gloves fixed in its wall.

Sudair Pharma in Saudi Arabia runs an oncology facility. Fabtech delivered its cleanrooms, HVAC, clean utilities and clean infrastructure.

The production facility covers 6,285 square metres. The oncology manufacturing facility page explains the layers of containment, from the building to the product.

Oral solid dosage and liquids

Oral solid dosage means medicines that are swallowed in solid form, such as tablets and capsules.

Liquids include syrups and suspensions, which carry fine solid particles in a liquid. These medicines are not sterile.

The main jobs of the plant are to control dust and to stop one product mixing into the next.

Fidson Healthcare in Nigeria planned six dosage lines in one plant. A dosage line is a production line for one type of medicine.

Fabtech's contract covered the cleanrooms, HVAC, utilities, high purity water and laboratory. The project had stopped for over 18 months when we took it over, and we commissioned our scope in 15 months.

See oral solid dosage facility design for each stage, from dispensing to packing.

Hospitals and healthcare

A hospital also needs rooms with clean, controlled air.

The main ones are operation theatres, hospital pharmacy cleanrooms and isolation rooms. They follow a different standard from a pharmaceutical plant.

The hospital usually has to stay open while the work is done.

Inside a hospital, our work is the cleanrooms and the HVAC. For Burjeel Hospital in the UAE, Fabtech designed and built operation theatres.

To compare the three rooms, read our hospital cleanroom page.

What stays the same in every plant

Fabtech designs your plant, makes its own cleanroom panels and supplies the air, water and process equipment.

So the rooms and the machines are planned together. The design work, stage by stage, is under pharmaceutical engineering services.

We take the plant from design to qualification, which means proving, with written tests, that the plant works as designed.

We can deliver the whole plant as a turnkey project. Each step is explained under pharmaceutical turnkey projects.

We build GMP and WHO compliant plants. GMP means good manufacturing practice.

Each plant is made to withstand inspection under USFDA (United States), MHRA (United Kingdom) and TGA (Australia). Before handover, each room and system goes through four qualification steps: design, installation, operation and performance.

These steps are known as DQ/IQ/OQ/PQ, and the equipment qualification page explains them.

Where to find your answer

Your question	Where to read the answer
Which rooms does a sterile plant need, and in what order?	Injectables and sterile products
How is a vaccine or a biosimilar made, from the first cell culture to the filled vial?	Vaccines and biosimilars
How does a plant keep a cancer medicine away from its workers?	Oncology
How does powder move through a tablet plant, from dispensing to packing?	Oral solid dosage and liquids
How does the air move in an operation theatre, a pharmacy cleanroom and an isolation room?	Hospitals and healthcare
Which plants has Fabtech delivered, and where?	Projects and installations

Other kinds of plant

Fabtech serves three industries only: pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical and healthcare. Is your medicine, for example an ointment or a cream, not named on this page? Tell us what you plan to make.

FAQ

Which industries does Fabtech build for?

Fabtech serves three industries only: pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical and healthcare. Our plants cover injectables and sterile products, vaccines and biosimilars, oncology medicines, and oral solid dosage and liquids. In hospitals, we build the cleanrooms and the HVAC. We have worked on more than 760 projects in more than 65 countries.

Can one plant make more than one kind of medicine?

Yes. Each kind needs its own rooms, machines and level of cleanliness, and all of them can share one site. Fidson Healthcare in Nigeria planned six dosage lines in one plant.

Does Fabtech supply the equipment that goes into the plant?

Yes. Fabtech supplies containment, process, water and clean-air equipment, and makes its own cleanroom panels. One partner designs the rooms and supplies the machines, so the parts of the plant are designed to fit together.

What do you need from us to start?

Tell us the product, its form (tablet, liquid or injection) and the countries where you will sell it. The product and its form decide the rooms and the machines. The countries decide which regulator will inspect the plant, and so which standard we design to.