Dr Reddy's Laboratories (DRL), on 17 March 2010, commissioned the commercial
scale manufacturing facility for pharma grade mPEG alcohols at its Cuernavaca
facility in Mexico.
The mPEG (methyl ether polyethylene glycol) alcohol manufactured in Mexico is
likely to be supplied to DRL's c-GMP facility in Mirfield, UK, where commercial
scale activation is carried out. While a part of the total activated mPEG
production is to be used by DRL for captive purposes, rest will be sold to its
customers.
The mPEG alcohols are the key raw materials for Activated mPEG, extensively
used for pegylation with biologic drugs and increasingly for peptides and small
molecule pharmaceuticals.