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Monteggio, Switzerland

Our Monteggio (CH) site serves as the Center of Excellence for particle engineering, and provides particle size control expertise through micronization technologies.
6998 Monteggio, Switzerland
Via Cantonale 4
Monteggio 6998,
Switzerland

65+

Years

We have extensive experience in particle engineering.


200+

Activities

More than 200 activities are handled every year.


1000+

Ingredients

We micronize over 1000 different active ingredients.


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Premier capabilities in particle size reduction services

We offer industry leading expertise in particle engineering of Small Molecules, from early clinical development through to process validation and commercial supply. Our team's extensive knowledge and range of micronization technologies are a key component of our integrated network of development and manufacturing facilities. State-of-the-art milling technologies include comprehensive high containment (HPAPI) capabilities for working with compounds down to 50 ng/m³ requiring glove box isolation and cryogenic milling. With 19 GMP clean room suites and a wide selection of mill type and scale for commercial production of kilograms to tonnes, our site has the unrivalled capacity to support clients' micronization needs throughout a product's lifecycle. In addition to handling API and HPAPI, the Monteggio site has over three decades of experience in handling narcotics and controlled substances, hormones and steroids.

Quality at the heart of everything we do

Our long history of success enables our pharmaceutical clients to optimize particle size and size distribution to influence a range of properties critical to a successful medicine. Our scientists and engineers apply their micronization knowledge gained from experience with over 1,000 compounds to improve drug substance stability, flowability, dissolution and bioavailability to provide solutions for oral solid, inhaled and other drug delivery modes. Our site includes a dedicated micronization research and development suite and an analytical laboratory focused on solid-state characterization. Our facility has been regularly inspected by and is registered with FDA; SwissMedic and Japan Ministry of Health. Today and tomorrow, our clients and their patients can be confident in our commitment to deliver products of the highest standard consistently.

Offerings available at this site
Bioavailability Enhancement
We offer integrated product development from active pharmaceutical ingredients through particle-engineered intermediates to finished drug products....
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Micronization and Jet Milling
Access efficient jet milling & micronization for your API particles. Meet specific particle size distribution targets with excellent reproducibility....
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Pharmaceutical Method Development
Receive end-to-end analytical support in the development of your molecule, bringing your product to market faster and with robust regulatory...
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CMC Development Services | CMC Regulatory Submissions
We provide chemistry, manufacturing and controls (CMC) pharma expertise, to ensure that products are safe, effective and of consistent quality. Learn...
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Integrated Offerings
As part of our integrated product development services, we provide commercial scale production for our oral solid products from a global network of...
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Inhalation Formulation Development
Benefit from a flexible, integrated inhalation formulation for your respiratory drug development. Get it right the first time for your DPI target...
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Experts in our field

Meet Salvatore Mercuri

Salvatore is the Head of the NPI&MSAT department at Lonza Monteggio and a Subject Matter Expert in size reduction across our network. His team in Monteggio follows the milling and micronization process during development and scale-up, right up to the point of industrial-scale validation. We deal with both process development and analytical characterization.

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We continually strive to reduce our impact on natural systems and the environment, conserve energy and resources, assure safety, health and wellbeing of our employees and help to improve the quality of life in the communities in which we operate.

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