For more than 125 years, Wood has delivered comprehensive services throughout North America to support our customers across the complete asset life cycle.
Read moreWe are known in Europe for our unrivalled asset familiarity and performance-driven solutions throughout the asset life cycle, from development to decommissioning.
Read moreBacked by an 85+ year history of operating within the Asia Pacific region, Wood is proud of its longstanding partnerships, underpinned by our proven ability to optimise asset performance, drive capital efficiency and deliver for our customers.
Read moreWood has been present in the Caspian region for over 20 years. We combine our strong knowledge of the area, global expertise across the entire asset life cycle and experience required to operate successfully in the harsh and complex environment of the world’s largest land-locked body of water.
Read moreThe Middle East is a key growth area for Wood. We have maintained a presence in the region for over 7 decades; helping design, build, operate, maintain, and modify some of the world’s largest and complex facilities.
Read moreWood is strategically located throughout Latin America and the Caribbean in a variety of sectors including oil and gas, refining, chemicals, water, mining, energy, industrial plants and facilities and communications.
Read moreOur footprint in Africa continues to expand. For over 30 years we have been investing selectively to improve local services and support communities.
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Wood operates across the pharmaceutical and chemical manufacturing sectors, where the ability to combine attention to detail and compliance with rigorous performance, safety and quality standards is paramount. We deliver services ranging from design, engineering and procurement, to construction management and start up, into operation and maintenance for manufacturing and packaging facilities worldwide.
We have extensive experience in the life sciences sector, including overseeing refurbishment projects for global chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturers where the ability to deliver a spread of services through one project management team is the key to adding value in a high-quality, high-precision and extremely competitive manufacturing sector.
Wood supports a vast array of customers, including AstraZeneca, Roche, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Novartis, MSD, DSM, Aesica Pharmaceuticals, Sanofi and Bristol Myers Squibb.
We design, build and validate facilities for compliance with the code of Good Manufacturing Practice, providing project and design documentation tailored to suit pharmaceutical regulatory requirements, ensuring that compliance is maintained at all times.
Our experienced project managers and engineering technical specialists provide management and process technology solutions that consistently exceed all safety and quality objectives and have strong cost and schedule performance.
Wood’s approach to module design, inspection and logistics reduces field construction costs while improving safety. Our project teams have the hands-on engineering know-how to take a grassroots project from concept to start-up, supporting our customers with a variety of projects such as plant refurbishments, modernisations and maintenance.
Our team of pharmaceutical and biotech specialists brings together the expertise, innovation, industry knowledge and commercial awareness to serve the pharma industry.
We have an impressive track record, safely and successfully delivering projects for facilities covering all aspects of pharmaceutical research, development and manufacture.
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