Sterile manufacturing · Adelaide, South Australia

The sterile medicines Australia keeps running short of.

Elemental IV is establishing local, ready-to-use sterile injectable manufacturing — reducing Australia's reliance on imports, and the shortages that put hospital care at risk.

11Na
19K
12Mg
1000 500 250 mL
~90%
of Australia's sterile injectable medicines are sourced from overseas
Recurring
shortages of critical injectables force rationing, substitution and emergency imports
By hand
many ready-to-use infusions don't exist here, so they're prepared manually at the bedside
The problem

A long, offshore supply chain for medicines hospitals can't do without.

Australia depends on distant supply lines for the sterile medicines its hospitals use every day. When that chain breaks — and it does, repeatedly — hospitals ration, substitute, and fall back on costly emergency imports. Many ready-to-use presentations simply aren't made here, so clinicians prepare them by hand, adding cost, delay and the risk of error at the point of care.

What we're building

Local manufacturing for ready-to-use sterile medicines.

Elemental IV is establishing South Australian capability to manufacture finished, ready-to-administer sterile injectable products — the hospital-critical medicines Australia is most exposed on. Made here, in ready-to-use form, they shorten the supply chain, reduce manual preparation, and give hospitals a dependable domestic source.

11Na

Supply resilience

A domestic source for products that are import-dependent and shortage-prone — closer to the hospitals that rely on them.

19K

Patient safety

Ready-to-administer presentations reduce manual preparation and the medication errors that come with it.

12Mg

Sovereign capability

Local sterile manufacturing that strengthens Australia's medical supply chain and reduces dependence on imports.

Approach · where we are

Starting narrow, built properly from the outset.

We're at the foundation stage — defining the facility, the product set and the regulatory pathway in line with PIC/S and TGA expectations, and building the right partnerships in equipment, research and government to do it well. We're deliberately beginning with a small set of high-need products where local, ready-to-use supply matters most.

Now

Foundations

Facility design, product selection and the regulatory pathway.

Building toward

Manufacturing

GMP-aligned sterile manufacturing of ready-to-use products.

Long term

Resilience

A reliable, sovereign source of Australia's essential sterile medicines.

Get in touch

Building this with us.

We'd like to hear from investors, hospital and health partners, and collaborators who want a more resilient supply of Australia's sterile medicines.