Neuland Laboratories will open a dedicated process development laboratory and integrated kilo lab at its Genome Valley campus in Hyderabad. The new 135,000 sq ft facility will see $20m invested in a specialist fit-out and be operationalised in phases, with full completion expected by October 2026. Significantly, it has been designed as a purpose-built integrated scale-up laboratory dedicated exclusively to process development. Once completed, the site will take Neuland’s process development team to more than 500 scientists, making it one of the largest scale-up workforces in India. Unlike many contract development manufacturing organisations, where process development laboratories may also support discovery or other mixed-use workstreams, the new facility has been designed exclusively for process development. It will also integrate non-Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) kilo labs, allowing scientists to evaluate process performance at larger scales without transferring work to separate sites or competing for access to GMP capacity. This enables teams to continue process optimisation while generating real-time scale-up data in parallel.