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Recipharm

Recipharm is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Recipharm rather than just read about it. In short: Recipharm is a leading global Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisation (CDMO), employing 5,200 people and operating in over a hundred markets worldwide. Recipharm offers pharmaceutical manufacturing services across various dosage forms, including sterile fill & finish, oral solid dosage, and biologics.

Key takeaways

Recipharm belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Recipharm to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Recipharm from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Recipharm is a leading global Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisation (CDMO), employing 5,200 people and operating in over a hundred markets worldwide. Recipharm offers pharmaceutical manufacturing services across various dosage forms, including sterile fill & finish, oral solid dosage, and biologics. Additionally, they provide clinical trial material development and manufacturing services, as well as pharmaceutical product development. Recipharm manufactures several hundred different products for customers ranging from large pharmaceutical companies to smaller research and development firms.

History

Recip 1995-2007 In March 1995, Thomas Eldered and Lars Backsell conducted a management buyout of a Pharmacia solid dose tablet manufacturing facility in Årsta, Stockholm and formed the company Recip. The facility had 130 employees and a turnover of SEK 220 million. The company continued to manufacture pharmaceutical products for Pharmacia during a transition period while it also developed its own products. Recip also began providing contract manufacturing services to other pharmaceutical companies. In 1997, Recip was believed to be the first pharmaceutical company in the world to certify its entire operations according to the ISO 14001 environmental management system. From 1998, the company began to grow by acquiring facilities in Sweden. The brand name Recipharm was established in 2001 for the growing contract manufacturing part of Recip's business. In 2007, the Recip part of the business and the company's own portfolio were divested to Meda.

Recipharm 2007-present Following the sale of Recip, the company focused on its contract manufacturing business. The capital from the sale of Recip was used to make further acquisitions – initially in Europe and later the US and India. Acquisitions were used to broaden the company's offering and customer base, and to enter new markets. Recipharm became a public listed company on Nasdaq Stockholm in 2014. Between 2014 and 2019, Recipharm's sales grew by an average of more than 30 per cent annually, including a combination of internal growth and acquisitions. In 2020, Recipharm completed its largest acquisition to date. The £505 million takeover of UK-based Consort Medical added around 2,000 employees and ten European facilities to the company, as well as new device capabilities. In February 2021, Private equity firm EQT acquired Recipharm for $2.1 billion. In March 2021, Mark Funk joined Recipharm as CEO, replacing Thomas Eldered who remains on the Board of Directors. In 2022, Recipharm acquired CDMOs Arranta Bio, Vibalogics, and Genlbet to increase its biologics and virus manufacturing business. In January 2024, Greg Behar was appointed Chief Executive Officer at Recipharm, succeeding Mark Funk who remains on the Board of Directors. In April 2024, Recipharm sold seven of their manufacturing sites to Blue Wolf Capital Partners and spun-out Bespak as a standalone drug delivery business.

The Recipharm International Environmental Award Recipharm's International Environmental Award was annually awarded for the best environmental performance or environmental innovation within the pharmaceutical industry or academia. The final award, recognizing the 2020 winner, was presented in 2021.

External Recognition 2006 - Environmental Leadership award from the NMC Swedish Association for Sustainable business 2012 - Ernst & Young ‘Entrepreneur of the Year prize’ for Best International growth was awarded to Thomas Eldered and Lars Backsell 2014 - The Royal Patriotic Society awarded Thomas Eldered and Lars Backsell with the Enterprise medal for outstanding entrepreneurship 2015 - The annual SwedenBIO Award was presented to Recipharm for their contribution to Sweden life science during the year

References

External links Recipharm.com List of all Award winners since 2008

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Recipharm

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Recipharm claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Recipharm before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Recipharm ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Recipharm

In research: Recipharm appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Recipharm in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Recipharm is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Companies of Sweden, Contract development and manufacturing organizations, Contract research organizations, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Recipharm outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Recipharm in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Recipharm means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Recipharm out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Recipharm in simple terms?

Why does Recipharm matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Recipharm?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Recipharm.