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Some 110 employees work at the Amsterdam site today. The plant consists of two fermentation lines, a single-use equipment line, and a fill-and-finish facility for filling sterile solutions into vials. To this end, the site has production rooms that comply with the highest cleanroom classification – Class A. This means that there must be only very few organisms in each cubic meter of air. Additionally, the Amsterdam site has a lyophilization facility, where active ingredient solutions can be freeze-dried. This often improves their stability, i.e. their shelf life. Amsterdam’s three production lines have a combined fermenter volume for pharmaceutical actives of some 2,000 liters. The acquisition of the site has thus more than doubled Wacker Biotech’s capacities.