GRBJ Feature: Triple or Quadruple Capacity
President and CEO, Tom Ross, shared insight on our expanding facilities with the Grand Rapids Business Journal, which includes:
- “By October [2018], St. Louis-based CRB, a design-build firm that specializes in constructing pharmaceutical facilities, began work on GRAM’s $60 million expansion project at the Butterworth site — a 61,500-square-foot facility that will have a state-of-the-art cleanroom, two formulation suites, 14,000 square feet of room to grow and $15 million worth of high-speed equipment that will enable GRAM to produce commercial batches of all sizes.”
- “The project timeline will be shorter than average, Ross said, because CRB is designing the facility in stages as it’s being built.”
- “Ross said once the Butterworth facility is open, GRAM will “triple or quadruple” its capacity from day one.”
- “Ross said GRAM already has many of the capabilities the new building will have — with the exception of the isolator technology — but the new equipment will be about four times faster and there will be more automation.”
- Note: As of September 10, 2019, alongside SKAN, Grand River Aseptic Manufacturing successfully passed the FAT for the brand new Isolator technology. This technology will add state-of-the-art vial filling and freeze drying to the Butterworth facility.
We appreciate the support we’ve received from the Grand Rapids community and Michigan as a whole. We look forward to continued growth in Grand Rapids as we serve our U.S. and international partners.
View the full article here: GRAM to triple or quadruple capacity by 2020