It’s been said that everything new has been done before. And while that might be true to some degree, when your startup is one of only a handful of companies in the country doing what it does, it means your business trajectory is different from other startups.
US Specialty Formulations LLC is a contract manufacturer and one of the first 503B Drug Quality and Security Act outsourcing facilities registered with the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. It cost-effectively produces specialty formulations of pharmaceuticals in small batches for larger pharmaceutical and healthcare organizations. USSF focuses on two lines of business: specialty products such as topicals and sterile injectables for both humans and animals, and investigational drugs for clinical trials.
The company can manufacture these critical materials from a recipe provided by a client or can develop a formula and teach the client how to produce it. But it specializes in manufacturing low volumes of a 50,000-unit batch size or smaller. “There aren’t lot of companies doing what we’re doing,” said Dr. Kyle Flanigan, Co-founder and CEO. “We make a little of a lot of things!”
Time to expand
Now, six years later, the company is ready for its next expansion, which will be in Allentown. But before settling on a 40,000 sq. ft. building at 101 E. Lexington Street on the city’s south side, Dr. Flanigan and his business partner Dr. Garry Morefield, considered sites in Florida and Arizona, as well as other parts of the Commonwealth.
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