Profile: Patheon Inc. (PTI.TO)

Patheon Inc. (Patheon) is a Canada-based company. The Company’s operates in two segments commercial manufacturing and pharmaceutical development. It is a provider of contract manufacturing services and it delivers products to approximately 120 countries and offers services, such as manufacturing, logistics and packaging of conventional dosage forms, sterile dosage forms and specialized products. Patheon's commercial manufacturing activities relate primarily to prescription products in solid, semi-solid, and liquid dosage forms, as well as various sterile dosage forms. Its pharmaceutical development services include pre-formulation, formulation and development of dosage forms; development of analytical methods; manufacture of proposed new drug products during the regulatory drug approval process, including the manufacture of pilot (experimental) batches; clinical packaging, and scale-up and technology transfer services designed to validate commercial-scale drug manufacturing processes.