The technology group Sartorius has
officially opened a new building for the manufacture of filters and single-use
bags for biopharmaceutical applications at its Yauco, Puerto Rico site. After
approximately one year of construction, the new building was officially
dedicated in the presence of the governor of Puerto Rico,
Luis Fortuño, the Secretary of the Economic Development and Commerce
Department, José Pérez-Riera, as well as numerous guests from the local
political and business community.
The global pharma supplier and provider of
laboratory equipment invested around 16 million euros into the expansion of its
production capacity in Puerto Rico. Covering an area of
5,000 square meters, the new eco-friendly building complex provides space for
two new clean rooms for filter and bag manufacture, labs and offices. By the
end of the year, bag manufacturing operations will be moved from their present
site in Concord, California, to Yauco,
Puerto Rico. There, Sartorius added about 120 new
employees and thus nearly doubled its workforce. The Concord
site is due to close by the end of 2012.
By extending its plant, Sartorius is
responding to the biopharma industry's growing demand for single-use products.
Filters are used in this industry to sterile-filter biopharmaceuticals or to
obtain active pharmaceutical ingredients from liquids. Single-use bags are
employed as flexible containers for preparing nutrients, installed in
single-use bioreactors, or utilized for transporting and storing biological
active ingredients. Filters and bags are increasingly being requested as
combined, sterile-packaged and ready-to-connect single-use assemblies.
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A Profile of Sartorius
The Sartorius Group is a leading
international laboratory and process technology provider covering the segments
of Bioprocess Solutions, Lab Products & Services and Industrial Weighing.
In 2011, the technology group earned sales revenue of 733.1 million euros.
Founded in 1870, the Goettingen-based company currently employs more than 5,000
persons. The major areas of activity of its Bioprocess Solutions segment cover
filtration, fluid management, fermentation, cell cultivation and purification,
and focus on production processes in the biopharmaceutical industry. The Lab
Products & Services segment primarily manufactures laboratory instruments
and consumables. Industrial Weighing concentrates on weighing, monitoring and
control applications in the manufacturing processes of the food, chemical and
pharma sectors. Sartorius has its own production facilities in Europe, Asia and
America as well
as sales subsidiaries and local commercial agencies in more than 110 countries.
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