

Air & Specialties has been involved in two ISPE Facility of the Year Award projects.
2010: MannKind Corporation, Connecticut
Facility of the Year – Process Innovation
Facility of the Year – Equipment Innovation
Air & Specialties was a major contributor in a project that was named ISPE's 2010 Facility of the Year in two categories. MannKind Corporation is a specialty pharmaceutical company located in Danbury, CT, that manufactures inhalable insulin. A&S worked closely with users, construction managers and vendors to design, fabricate and install stainless steel products throughout of the state-of-the-art facility. Custom stainless items that A&S produced for MannKind include:
- Solution prep stainless tank platforms
- Lyophilizer trim stainless
- Cryo pelletizer platform
- Stainless staircases and railings
- Stainless piping supports
- HMI enclosures and supports
- Custom drain covers
- Various custom process and packaging pieces
2008: Bristol-Myers Squibb, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Facility of the Year – Equipment Innovation
Air & Specialties designed, fabricated and installed all of the custom specialty stainless steel for Bristol-Myers Squibb’s ISPE award-winning CSO facility. This project provided A&S the opportunity to provide innovative contributions to a unique facility that is not only extremely functional, but beautiful as well. Some of the custom items our craftsman produced:
- Stainless platforms
- Niro stainless piping and trim
- Custom utility/electrical panels
- Lyophilizer stainless trim
- Specialty stainless pieces
- Custom gowning cabinets
- Skan and Groniger trim pieces
- Custom floor drains

- OSHA 10 and 30
- Confined Entry Training
- IS Networld Certification
- Certificates to operate overhead lifts

Past and present, because the list includes firms that have since merged with other companies.
- Akorn
- Actavis
- Anheuser-Busch
- Berlex Laboratories
- Bristol-Myers Squibb
- Campbell's Soup
- Cardinal Health
- Colgate-Palmolive
- Columbia University
- Exxon Mobil
- Gateway Center, Newark, NJ
- Glatt Air Techniques
- Hoffmann-La Roche
- IFF (Int'l Flavors & Fragrances)
- Kean University
- L'Oreal USA
- MannKind Corp.
- Merck & Co.
- Newark Liberty Airport
- Organon
- Ortho-McNeil
- Pfizer Inc.
- Peterson & Staeger
- Port Authority of NY & NJ
- PF Laboratories
- Sanofi-Aventis
- Rutgers University
- Schering-Plough
- Scholes Electric & Communications
- Torcon, Inc.
- Trinitas Hospital
- Turner Construction