How Do You Start Process Transfer For A New Client?

Anmaris Torres is Process Engineering Team Leader at Cambrex Charles City, IA. She holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, with experience across the pharmaceutical, electronic, and chemical industries.

She leads a team of engineers that works alongside the chemical development group and other cross-functional teams to transfer and design processes into production manufacturing, ensuring compliance with health, safety, and environmental regulations while analyzing process data to drive continuous improvement. Her expertise spans technology transfer, equipment fit assessment and process optimization, Lean and Six Sigma methodologies, project management, and process validation and equipment qualification.

On how a transfer begins, Torres describes a deliberately collaborative start. Moving from clinical to commercial production means analyzing data from the clinical batches and then brainstorming across departments — production, chemical development, operational excellence — to find opportunities to improve the process and reduce cycle time.