Investment now totals $33 million and will add reactor capacity, improve containment, and expand early-stage development capabilities at the Morton Grove site.
Funding will support additional orbital manufacturing missions and pharmaceutical development as the company advances microgravity-enabled drug processing.
The Danish pharma company will invest in the CDMO’s capacity, which is expected to increase ALK’s annual output by about 40% to 1.1 billion tablets from the early 2030s.
The company has produced its first R&D batches of Exatecan, a starting material, and plans validation batches by year-end, with initial GMP supply targeted for late 2027.
The CDMO was selected by Belgian biopharma company Flen Health to provide process development, scale-up, and GMP manufacturing services for a wound healing product.
The first of the CDMO’s four planned modules is now operational, adding 7,000 liters of reactor capacity for peptide API development and commercial manufacturing.
The multiyear investment will expand over-the-counter production in North Carolina and consolidate commercial and R&D operations at a New Jersey campus.
The new business will provide development and manufacturing services for complex small molecules, including HPAPIs, peptides, ADC payloads, and linkers.