Samsung Biologics is a South Korean

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company headquartered in Songdo, Incheon, South Korea. The biotech division of

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, it provides contract development and manufacturing (CDMO) services to the biopharmaceutical industry. The company has partnered with GlaxoSmithKline,

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and

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for COVID-19 treatments. Samsung Biologics also partnered with

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for fill-finish, packaging and labeling of its

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, Spikevax, and Greenlight Biosciences on the manufacturing of mRNA vaccine drug substance candidate during the

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History

Founded in 2011, Samsung Biologics built three manufacturing plants with a capacity of more than 360,000 liters, from 2011 to 2018, making it the world's largest contract-based manufacturer in the biopharmaceutical sector at a single site as of 2018. Since 2020, Samsung Biologics has operated a research and development center in

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. In 2012, it established Samsung Bioepis, a biosimilar medicine producer, with

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. The company acquired full ownership of Samsung Bioepis in 2022 by purchasing all remaining shares from Biogen for $2.3 billion. In November 2019, Samsung Biologics became the first contract manufacturing organization to obtain ISO 27001 certification and the first in the Korean biopharma industry to obtain an ISO 22301 certification in May 2020. In 2020, Samsung Biologics introduced S-CHOice, a cell line expression technology, and S-Cellerate to shorten the period for developing drugs the next year. The company also obtained ISO 45001, 50001, 14001 and 9001 in May 2021. Samsung Biologics published its first annual sustainability report in June 2021. The company also joined the Frontier 1.5D initiative, which works to limit the temperature rise within 1.5 degrees from pre-industrial times. It was added to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index later that year.

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