By visiting our website or using services provided by Sai Life Sciences, you are accepting the practices described in the Privacy Policy.

We also use cookies on our websites. Cookies allow us to give you the best browsing experience and help us to understand how you use our site. You can disable cookies but parts of our website may not work. By continuing to use this website, you agree that we may store and access cookies on your device.

By clicking “I Accept”, you confirm that you are above the age of 16, that you have read and understood the Cookies Usage and the Privacy Policy, and that you agree to the collection, use and processing of your Personal Information by Sai Life in accordance with said policies.

I accept

Stay up to date with our newsletter

Get in touch!

To explore career opportunities with Sai Life Sciences, share your CV here.

Lets start the conversation!

Sign up to our newsletter

Thank you!
We will be in touch shortly.

2021.03.24

Clean room block

Sai Life Sciences opens new clean room block at its manufacturing campus

Sai Life Sciences, one of India’s fastest growing Contract Research, Development & Manufacturing Organizations (CRDMOs), today announced the opening of a new Clean Room block at its cGMP API & Intermediate Manufacturing campus in Bidar, India.

Making the announcement, Krishna Kanumuri, CEO & Managing Director of Sai Life Sciences said, “Over the last two years we have been seeing an increase in projects involving commercial products, not just for regulatory starting materials and intermediates, but also final drug substances. This addition of latest generation clean rooms to our facilities expands our capacity while adding versatility to help serve the diverse needs of our customers.”

A notable aspect across all of the company’s infrastructure expansion over the past two years has been to make all new facilities uniformly capable of handling containment down to 1µg/m3. The new 8,500 sq. ft. Clean Room block is the newest addition to this list. Located in the Bidar Manufacturing Campus of the company, it has the following features:

• Four ISO-8 (Class 100,000) Clean Rooms operating at containment level of 1µg/m3 across the operation
• Four parallel crystallizer lines with complete segregation of AHU
• Five versatile dissolution reactors capable of handling various reactions, including if crystallization step is in situ with reaction
• Latest generation Wonderware automation which allows fine ramp control / distillation control to handle critical cooling crystallization and evaporative crystallization
• Versatile sizes of filtration, drying equipment (Filter dryers, Peeler centrifuge, Nauta dryer)
• Various material of construction (SS316, Hastelloy and Glass-lined).
• Separate line for size reduction.
• “Bubble design” with separate gowning / de-gowning areas and airlocks to enable multi-product handling.

  • Clean room block
  • Clean room block
  • Clean room block
  • Clean room block

Sai Life Sciences began a process of organizational transformation in 2019 reinventing itself as a new generation global CDMO. Through this initiative, named Sai Nxt, the company is investing over US$ 150M (> INR 1000 Cr) to expand and upgrade its R&D and manufacturing facilities, induct top-notch global scientific and leadership talent, strengthen automation and data systems, and above all raise the bar for safety, quality and customer focus.

Share article

More News

2026.03.10

AI-driven retrosynthesis integrated into Discovery Chemistry

Sai Life Sciences has entered into a collaboration with Chemical.AI, a technology company specialising in computer-aided synthesis design, to integrate an AI-driven retrosynthesis platform into its Discovery Chemistry workflows. The integration enables medicinal chemists to evaluate synthetic routes more rapidly and explore a broader set of feasible pathways during early-stage drug discovery. Retrosynthesis is a […]
Read more

2026.03.10

Structural Biology capabilities launched with X-Ray Crystallography

Sai Life Sciences has introduced integrated structural biology capabilities with the establishment of X-ray protein crystallography workflows to support structure-based drug discovery programs. The platform encompasses end-to-end protein engineering capabilities, including construct design, gene synthesis, and in-house recombinant protein expression and purification. These foundational steps enable generation of high-quality protein material suitable for structural and […]
Read more

2026.03.09

New Medicinal Chemistry block set for inauguration in Hyderabad

A new Medicinal Chemistry block, Unit VIII, is set for inauguration at IKP, Genome Valley, Hyderabad, expanding discovery capacity to meet growing program demand. The four-floor facility spans approximately 100,000 sq. ft. and is designed to support large, multi-disciplinary project teams. It accommodates more than 200 fume hoods and includes a tightly integrated analytical laboratory […]
Read more

2026.03.09

AI-enabled production and material planning platform implemented

Over the past several months, focused AI pilot initiatives have been conducted across operations to evaluate practical applications that strengthen execution. One such initiative is now live across the network: Optimus, an integrated AI-enabled production and material planning platform, implemented at the end of December 2025. Optimus consolidates capacity planning, equipment allocation, and material availability […]
Read more

2026.03.09

Commercial-scale Photo Flow Chemistry successfully executed in Bidar

Commercial-scale flow chemistry has been successfully executed at our API manufacturing site in Bidar for a late-phase program supporting a US-based innovator. This execution builds on prior investments in continuous processing infrastructure at the site, including a 3-litre photo flow reactor equipped with a monochromatic blue LED light source. The platform enables controlled photochemical transformations […]
Read more