West Pharmaceutical Services manufactures containment and delivery components and devices for injectable medicines, serving pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies from 50 global sites.
West Pharmaceutical Services is a global manufacturer of integrated containment and delivery solutions for injectable medicines, producing packaging components and devices for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. The company has operated for over 100 years and employs approximately 10,000 team members across 50 sites worldwide, shipping roughly 43 billion components and devices a year.
Its technical work spans elastomeric component design and manufacturing, pharmaceutical packaging systems, prefillable syringe technology, self-injection platform design, drug compatibility and stability science, and materials science for pharmaceutical packaging. Products include elastomeric stoppers and seals, prefillable syringe systems, self-injection platforms, and end-to-end containment and delivery systems engineered to standards for drug compatibility and stability.
West serves the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and healthcare sectors, including injectable drug development, working with both established and emerging drug developers. The company describes its approach as combining manufacturing excellence with scientific expertise, with an emphasis on quality, innovation and patient safety, and on helping bring medicines to market quickly and efficiently.