GE Healthcare’s Life Sciences business and Zenith Technologies, a global enterprise integrator with worldwide operating locations, today announced an agreement by which Zenith Technologies’ methodologies, systems and libraries will be offered as a service to GE Healthcare’s clients in bioprocessing.

The two companies will integrate Process Control Systems, Manufacturing Execution Systems and other supporting technologies with GE Healthcare’s start-to-finish technologies and solutions for the biopharmaceutical manufacturing industry. The aim is to help biopharmaceutical manufacturers to increase productivity, improve efficiency and reduce cost of ownership in the production of biological drugs and therapies when implementing GE KUBio modular manufacturing facilities and its FlexFactory single-use manufacturing platform.

Zenith brings an extensive portfolio of technology application and platform experience, project management and execution methodologies and systems, full life-cycle support, including managed services, and deep pharmaceutical industry expertise.

Jan Makela, General Manager, BioProcess, GE Healthcare said: “Our KUBio and FlexFactory offerings are innovative and efficient solutions for customers needing to deploy biopharmaceutical manufacturing capacity more quickly and at a lower cost. Implementing these advanced technology platforms requires automation expertise for which we partner with a number of world class companies. With Zenith Technologies’ expertise in automation integration and customer support, we will be able to offer more choice to customers.

Brendan O’Regan, Zenith Founder and CEO said: “This is a significant milestone in Zenith’s development and ushers in a new era of opportunity for both companies. GE offers an unprecedented solution to our pharmaceutical customers to help rapidly deploy capacity and significantly reduce time to market.

About GE Healthcare:

GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services to meet the demand for increased access, enhanced quality and more affordable healthcare around the world. GE (NYSE: GE) works on things that matter – great people and technologies taking on tough challenges. From medical imaging, software & IT, patient monitoring and diagnostics to drug discovery, biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies and performance improvement solutions, GE Healthcare helps medical professionals deliver great healthcare to their patients.

For more information about GE Healthcare, visit our website at www.gehealthcare.com.

About Zenith Technologies:

Zenith Technologies is a global enterprise integration company specialising in full life cycle Enterprise, Manufacturing and Operational Support solutions for Pharmaceutical manufacture. Operating out of 14 Global Locations, close to all the major Pharmaceutical centres, Zenith employs more than 600 professionals and is privately held, headquartered in Cork, Ireland.