Sponsorship

There are sponsorship packages currently available for these prestigious awards at a level that suits your business objectives.

​

Sponsoring a category will not only position you as a leading company within today's challenging market place but will provide you with an opportunity to give something back to a client base that is essential to your ongoing business success.

​

To enquire further about sponsorship opportunities please contact Kevin O'Driscoll on:

​

Phone: 01 407 0594
Email: kevin@businessriver.com

Official 2019 Video:

Sponsors

Kuehne + Nagel

Kuehne + Nagel Ireland are a leading global logistics provider of innovative and fully integrated supply chain solutions. Since 1890, Kuehne + Nagel operate warehousing and distribution services on behalf of the pharmaceutical industry and today are the leading provider of this service for the Pharma + Healthcare industry in Ireland with 23 or the top 25 pharma companies in Ireland as their clients.

With a clear focus on innovation and great customer service, Kuehne + Nagel have more people on the ground than any other logistics company in Ireland - they offer local knowledge with global expertise.

​

For more information please visit Kuehne + Nagel Ireland:

home.kuehne-nagel.com

Camida

​

Since its establishment in 1988 Camida have always been motivated and driven by customer needs and have continued to be a highly responsive, flexible company who bring a comprehensive array of sourcing and supply options to customers.

​

Operating in three sectors Life Sciences, Industrial and Food, Camida source, manage and deliver their customer’s needs. Customers are encouraged to tap into their global network and discover how over 30 years' experience in sourcing specialised chemicals has made Camida one of the most customer-focused and flexible companies in the industry. 

​

Camida’s Roles;

• Meeting the high-quality procurement needs of its customer’s.

• Representing its Principals

• Vendor reduction programmes, which are flexible and customised to meet customer’s needs.

Watson-Marlow

Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group is part of Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc, a FTSE 100 company.

​

The company is an award-winning, global leader in fluid management technology and for over 60 years has engineered components and systems for customers in a wide range of pharmaceutical and biotech markets.

We support our customers in Ireland from our Cork facility, providing sales order management, customer technical support, full wet-room product training and cGMP warehousing capability.

​

Learn more at www.watson-marlow.com/ie-en/ or @WMFTG_news.

LotusWorks

​

LotusWorks exists to support world-leading Pharmaceutical & Biologics organisations with engineering and technical expertise. Pharmaceutical facility commissioning, calibration and operations and maintenance are supported by LotusWorks teams. 

​

Recognised as a ‘Great Place to Work’ since 2016, LotusWorks employs 470 staff and works across 20 pharmaceutical client facilities. We add value to our pharmaceutical clients through our technical people. The company is focused on challenge resolution and process improvement implementation. We value our partnerships and are proud of our very long-standing relationships with major pharmaceutical clients.

CBRE

In Ireland, CBRE is the country’s largest commercial real estate services company offering a full range of property related services.  We are the market leaders within the Industrial & Logistics real estate sector, providing specialist services to logistics occupiers from site selection, acquisition, development advice to lease and rent review advice.

​

We offer the largest logistics real estate based services platform in Ireland and the world, helping our clients navigate a demanding and dynamic supply chain environment. We put this broad international experience to work for all of our clients locally, helping them make the most out of their real estate. Please visit our website at.

​

CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE: CBRE), is a Fortune 500, S&P 500 company and the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm (based on 2017 revenue). The company has more than 80,000 employees (excluding affiliates) and serves real estate investors and occupiers through approximately 450 offices (excluding affiliates) worldwide.

Tandem Project Management

Tandem is a project management and engineering consultancy that works with biotechnology, pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturing companies. Tandem provides expert project management, engineering design, project controls, construction, CQV (Commissioning, Qualification and Validation), Operational Readiness and Client Representative services.  Tandem also provide secondment personnel to its clients during the project implementation, start-up and operational phases.

Celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2020, Tandem now has a team of over 135 professionals working with clients across Ireland, the UK and Europe. Founder and CEO, Tim Mulhall, attributes Tandem’s growth to the strength of its team and its ability to focus on delivering its clients’ priorities in a collaborative and results-driven manner.

​

www.tandempm.ie

Ardmac

Ardmac is an international construction company delivering complex high value workspaces and technical environments for over 40 years.

We have the large-scale management and subcontracting resources to deliver world-class construction and refurbishment services on a varied range of projects. Our established project approach, and demonstrated value engineering ability provides significant efficiencies for our clients.
 
We have extensive experience in delivering large-scale medtech turnkey facilities internationally, using our in-house design management resources. These range from extension and refurbishment projects to complete facility build.
 
We take nothing for granted and listen carefully to develop a deep understanding of your needs and vision, taking ownership of integrating design and construction. Then we work meticulously to create a beautiful working environment that exceeds your expectations.
 
With a collective team approach, we believe that open timely communication keeps the project on schedule, removes risk, and helps us to deliver a successful result for our clients.

For more information please visit www.ardmac.com

BioPharmaChem Skillnet

BioPharmaChem Skillnet was established in 2006 with the aim of fostering a climate of whole-company development in the provision of Industry Specific technical and non-technical training within the Pharmaceutical, BioPharma, Chemical, and Medical Device sectors.

​

We work in partnership with our Member Companies to design and deliver Enterprise-Led, subsidised training solutions for Industry. We are actively involved in the promotion of the value of lifelong learning and the importance of ongoing professional development. We seek to address gaps in existing educational provision while also working with industry to identify future skills requirements. We also deliver best practice workshops which actively promotes networking between our Member Companies.

​

BioPharmaChem Skillnet is co-funded by Skillnet Ireland and member companies. Skillnet Ireland is funded from the National Training Fund through the Department of Education and Skills.

Source BioScience

With over 30 years experience working in the GMP regulated field of Stability Storage, Source Stability Storage Solutions offer a complete service. Whether you are looking for Microbiology and sterility testing services with full quality compliance at its core, stability storage equipment, outsourced storage partnerships, service & validation, Source Stability Storage Services can meet all your needs as a trusted partner. Working with the leading companies within Ireland the Stability Storage Service footprint has additional sites in the UK and USA to meet your global requirements with significant benefits to a global partnership.

For more information on Source BioScience, please visit their website: www.sourcebioscience.com

BioPharma Engineering

BioPharma Engineering is a customer focused, service orientated company specializing in the provision of Project Management and Process Engineering design services. We deliver the highest standards of service to our clients in the Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology and Chemicals industry working repeatedly with top tier Pharma companies. Our Team have delivered over €350 Million in capital projects over the last 5 years with over 2.5 Million LTA free man-hours worked in live Pharma production sites.

​

See more at www.biopharma.ie

Bioquell

Bioquell, an Ecolab Solution, is an established global leader in the design and manufacture of bio-decontamination solutions for risk reduction within the pharmaceutical, life science and healthcare sectors. With sales offices worldwide and an international distributor network, its leading Hydrogen Peroxide Vapour technology is used to eradicate biological contaminants including bacteria, viruses and fungi on exposed surfaces in any suitable enclosure to ensure maximum uptime. Deployment of Bioquell's Hydrogen Peroxide Vapour process provides residue-free, safe and repeatable disinfection of rooms, buildings, equipment and sensitive electronics. It is a clear alternative when replacing traditional methods such as formaldehyde or chlorine-based products.

​

For more information please visit Bioquell:

www.bioquell.com

Micro-Bio Ireland

Micro-Bio manufactures High Purity Sodium Hydroxide, Hydrochloric Acid, Sodium Hypochlorite and Brine Solutions at its electrolysis plant in Fermoy, Co. Cork. These products comply with multi-compendial standards (USP/EP/JP) and are suitable for use in CIP, Buffers, and Excipients in the Biotech/Biopharma sector. The Quality Systems employed by the company include ISO 9001:2015 with GMP controls. It has the capability and flexibility to adjust specifications to meet customer requirements.

Being the sole manufacturer here on the Island of Ireland, Micro-Bio offers customers the highest level of traceability and Security and Continuity of Supply. The Supply Chain could not be simpler between Manufacturer and End User.

For more information please visit Micro-Bio:

www.microbio.ie

Zenith Technologies, a Cognizant Company

Zenith Technologies, a Cognizant Company are Life Sciences GMP Manufacturing experts with an in-depth knowledge of Digital & Data systems and technologies. The combination of Zenith and Cognizant’s core services delivers a complete IT OT solution to the Life Sciences market, delivering on the promise of Industry 4.0 relating to Life Sciences. It covers full life cycle delivery from conception to completion, across the complete manufacturing systems landscape, offering full stack delivery. Zenith has an engrained understanding of implementing and supporting robust and secure system that are compliant within a GMP environment. They deliver this through a global network of engineers and SME’s expertise.   For more information, visit www.zenithtechnologies.com.

Modubuild

​

Modubuild is a fast growing multi award winning High Tech Construction company, headquartered in Kilkenny Ireland with a network of regional offices in Netherlands, UK, Belgium, Sweden & Finland. 

Modubuild specialise in rapid delivery of both Modular on-site and off site construction solutions on some of Europe's largest and most complex high-tech projects primarily in the biopharmaceutical, pharmaceutical & Data Centre sectors. 

We own and operate Europe's leading off site manufacturing facility where we design, construct and FAT entire turnkey high-tech buildings within our facility and then transport them to client sites across Europe in record time. 

Recently named as Kilkenny’s Employer of the year Modubuild’s growing team of over 270 professionals have successfully delivered for our clients in 10 countries to date.

For further information please visit www.modubuild.net

Indaver Ireland

Indaver, a leading European waste management company, was established in Ireland in 1977. Focusing on sustainable solutions for waste, Indaver is responsible for building and operating Ireland’s first municipal waste-to-energy facility in Co. Meath. This facility generates 18MW electricity from the waste which is enough to power the equivalent of 22,000 households.

The Indaver Group with its head office in Belgium employs over 1,600 employees with more than 170 employed in Ireland. Managing over 5 millions of waste in 2013 across a range of activities from waste prevention, recycling, composting and, most significantly, waste-to-energy, the Indaver Group is leading the field in sustainable waste management both here in Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, UK, Italy and Portugal.

​

For more information please visit Indaver Ireland:

www.indaver.ie

A&C Your Global GMP Partner

A&C is a service driven organization finding unique solutions to customers’ GMP challenges. We are a global GMP manufacturer of excipients, buffers, process ingredients and a select number of APIs.

A&C has been servicing the life science industry since 1966 and has offices and GMP production facilities in North America and Europe.

Our services include GMP custom ingredient development, raw material, R&D, GMP manufacturing and GMP custom packaging. A&C is renowned for our high quality standards and provides full transparency in the supply chain which is demonstrated through the numerous quality certifications we hold, including ISO 9001:2015, EXCiPACT, FDA and Health Canada audited. Our global GMP manufacturing facilities allow us to complete a variety of projects simultaneously with rapid response and completion times.

​

For more information visit www.acggp.com or email euro@acggp.com

Innopharma education

Innopharma works at the forefront of high-tech manufacturing, advancing skills and capabilities across the pharmaceutical, food and Medtech industries. We use our smart technology and education programmes to enable high-quality products and lives. That is our purpose - what we are focused on achieving every day. 

​

Innopharma is a group of companies - Technology, Education and Services - working together to bring the future of manufacturing forward. We develop high-tech solutions, learning and people to give the world's pharma, medtech and food industries the advanced capabilities they need to make progress on their journey to high tech manufacturing.

​

For more information please visit Innopharma: www.innopharmaeducation.com

SkyCell

SkyCell offers a data-driven container solution that allows pharma companies to optimise their supply chain by reducing, and even predicting, the risk of delivering sensitive drugs by air. 

​

It brings together big data, software and hardware to transform an ever-evolving supply chain, using a growing pool of over 3/4 of a billion data-points to enable a market-leading failure rate of less than 0.1% whilst also reducing CO2 emissions by almost half. 

​

Founded in Switzerland in 2012, the company's innovative approach has been validated by top 20 pharma companies and has partnerships with major airlines.

​

For more information visit: www.skycell.ch

Patron

BioPharmaChem Ireland

BioPharmaChem Ireland represents the biopharmaceutical and chemical manufacturing and sectors in Ireland, locally and internationally. The organisation works with its member companies to position Ireland as the location of choice for the development and supply of products and services generated by these sectors. BioPharmaChem Ireland's mission is to lead the sector towards achieving its vision by bringing together all relevant stakeholders in the State, namely industry, government, research community and the public at large to effectively communicate the unique attractiveness of this country as a leading location for the supply and development of such products.

​

BioPharmaChem Ireland is a sector group within Ibec.

​

For more information please visit BioPharmaChem Ireland:

www.pharmachemicalireland.ie

Supporters

​

​Shannon ABC

Shannon Applied Biotechnology Centre (ABC) is an Enterprise Ireland funded Technology Gateway that is a collaboration between Limerick Institute of Technology and the Institute of Technology, Tralee. Shannon ABC responds to the challenges of biotech, food and life science industries through the sustainable development of viable and cost-effective processes and products from bio-resources. This collaborative and risk management approach improves our client’s competitiveness and competence and facilitates the transfer of these innovative scientific solutions. In the last 3 years Shannon ABC have worked with 110 Irish companies delivering 180 projects. These projects are delivered by the 27 staff across both sites who have expertise in: Microbiology, Biotechnology, Molecular Biology, Analytical Science, Fungal Biology, Food Development, Cell Culture, Marine Extracts and work with companies from a range of sectors including: Food, Biotechnology, Cosmetics, Bio/pharma, Environmental, Nutraceutical, Healthcare and Marine.

​

For more information please visit Shannon ABC:

www.shannonabc.ie

National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training

NIBRT is a world-class institute that provides training and research solutions for the biopharmaceutical industry. Our mission is to support the biopharmaceutical industry by providing a unique learning experience for trainees in an environment that replicates the most modern industrial biopharmaceutical facility. In parallel, we also undertake leading edge research in key areas of biopharmaceutical in collaboration with Industry.

​

For more information please visit NIBRT:

www.nibrt.ie

The Pharmaceutical Managers' Institute of Ireland

The PMI was founded in 1989 as the Pharmaceutical Managers Association. In 1997, the PMI was inaugurated as the Pharmaceutical Managers Institute of Ireland.

​

The main objectives are to encourage, foster and maintain the highest possible standards of management within the Irish pharmaceutical industry.

​

For more information please visit PMI:

www.thepmi.com

Amárach Research

Amárach Research is Ireland's leading market research consultancy and provides detailed analysis of consumer and business trends to Ireland's blue chips companies. In uncertain times, Amárach Research provides the insights which provide a firm foundation on which to base key investment and purchase decisions.

Amárach's Chairman Gerard O'Neill is a member of IBEC's Sustainable Enterprise Committee and has co-authored several studies and reports on business and economic trends in Ireland.

​

For more information please visit Amárach Research:

www.amarach.com

Communications Partner

The Irish Times

The Irish Times is the Communications Partner to The Pharma Industry Awards.

For coverage of BusinessRiver events, visit our news hub - www.irishtimes.com/sponsored/business-river

​