Engineering Education

When Novartis AG, a Swiss pharmaceutical manufacturer, had to halt operations because of a massive drug mix up, Peter Buczynsky got a warning call from Sam's Club because his firm had purchased one of Novartis' drugs.

This is exactly the kind of mistake Buczynsky fights against with his Odessa-based firm PharmaWorks.

Buczynsky founded PharmaWorks in 2002 with Ingo Federle and Ben Brower in a 5,000-square-foot facility in Pasco Industrial Park. The space could not contain the firm, which manufactures and refurbishes equipment used by pharmaceutical companies.