Boryeong Wins Presidential Commendation for Manufacturing Innovation in 2025 SME Technology and Management Innovation Competition
Sep 05, 2025
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The Small and Medium Business Technology and Management Innovation Competition is organized by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups to promote the achievements of innovative SMEs in Korea to the world stage and expand opportunities to enter the market.
Boryeong was selected as an award-winning company in recognition of its contribution to innovation in manufacturing quality and strengthening global competitiveness by building a drug production facility called Yesan Campus as a smart factory.
Boryeong has been participating in the government-led smart factory construction and advancement project since 2019 to promote digital transformation of the entire factory such as production, quality, and logistics. It has applied automatic control systems and interface systems to major manufacturing facilities to collect and analyze process data in real time and increase the stability of the process. It also reduced the manufacturing lead time required to produce finished products from 15 days to 10.5 days by removing unnecessary waiting time and inefficiency factors.
In addition, the Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) has been introduced to establish a system that can electronically manage all processes from generation, modification, storage, sharing, and disposal of GMP documents. This strengthened historical tracking and access control of documents and contributed to improved manufacturing competitiveness by securing data integrity and quality control reliability.
Based on these manufacturing innovation efforts, Boryeong signed a CDMO contract for an anticancer drug with Taiwanese pharmaceutical company 'Lotus' in December 2024, and signed a CDMO contract with global pharmaceutical company 'Cheflapham' and schizophrenia drug 'Zaprexa' in July, proving that it has world-class manufacturing competitiveness.
"We plan to continue upgrading smart factories by introducing Quality Management System (QMS)," a Boryeong official said. "We plan to apply QMS to all production lines of Yesan Campus to increase production efficiency and customer reliability."
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
