Case study

The Female Health Company (formerly Chartex International plc)

Femidom®: the female condom

An automated manufacturing and test/inspection process was required to enable scale-up and launch of this product. PA assisted Chartex with:

The recruitment of the senior manufacturing staff The specification and procurement of equipment to fulfill the process specification The design and development of bespoke assembly equipment and test equipment to enable state-of-the-art, on-line, non-destructive leak detection of the flexible product at currently unrivaled accuracies and speed Supporting the establishment of current good manufacturing practice, including full equipment validation to enable approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the new facility on the first attempt

With PA's help, Chartex was able to establish a world class 35,000 sq ft clean manufacturing facility on a greenfield site and launch the female condom in Europe and the US.

The Female Health Company has won the 2002 Queen's Award for Enterprise