Company: PTHS
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form Type: 8-K/A
Source: 0001753926-25-001500
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Company: Pelthos Therapeutics Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form: 8-K/A
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piled numerous batches of commercial API. The operational API manufacturing strategy incorporates redundancy planning, including maintaining a certain API MOH (months-on-hand) quantity to mitigate potential risk, both “upside” and “downside”, related to potential future commercial demand of ZELSUVMI. Manufacturing ZELSUVMI API at its own, U.S.-based facility provides the Company with critical control over the longest lead time and the most complex component of ZELSUVMI’s supply chain.

The Company currently has sufficient API manufacturing capacity within its facility, as it is configured, to comfortably meet its current sales forecasts to supply API for ZELSUVMI. In its current configuration, the Company has excess capacity to increase utilization for additional API demand. Furthermore, the Company also has the ability to add additional manufacturing shifts and team members to manufacture even greater quantities of API, if needed, for current and potential future partners or customers of the NITRICIL technology. Effectively, the Company believes the current API theoretical manufacturing capacity could be roughly doubled, if needed due to one or more of the following: a higher than expected sales demand for ZELSUVMI, demand from current partnerships such as Sato and Ligand, and potential future partnerships for ZELSUVMI and/or the NITRICIL platform. The Company does not expect to need to invest in material or significant capital expenditures and other fixed costs to bring more manufacturing capacity on-line in the foreseeable future. The Company does expect to incur certain levels of capital expenditures for on-going operations, maintenance and improvements.

Drug Product (ZELSUVMI)

The Company has a long-standing strategic alliance with Orion Corporation (“Orion”), a Finnish full-scale pharmaceutical company with broad experience in cGMP drug manufacturing. Orion manufactures the Company’s commercial supply of its ZELSUVMI finished product. The drug product manufacturing and fill/finish process at Orion has been fully validated and qualified including site registration batches, project validation batches, and commercial batches. Through its contractual relationship with Orion, the Company has manufactured initial commercial launch quantities of ZELSUVMI. In addition, the Company has entered into a multi-year supply agreement and provides monthly estimates and forecasts for on-going production runs of finished products. The Company’s supply forecast is informed by the expected sales forecast, with adjustments such as MOH, safety stock, shelf life, and product dating.

ZELSUVMI Commercial Strategy

Commercial Background

ZELSUVMI is the first FDA-approved at-home prescription medication indicated for the treatment of molluscum contagiosum in patients