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news.Grifols has signed an agreement with Stough Development Corporation, the former owner of PlasmaCare, under which the US company will construct and lease to Grifols 10 new plasma collection centers in the US within a period of approximately 18 months.
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As a result, the Spanish group expects to obtain an additional 400,000 of its main raw material, without allocating any internal resources to this, as the operation will be financed in fully by Stough Development Corporation as the owner and lessor of the centers. The centers will be operated later by Grifols on a leasing basis.
The plasmapheresis centers will be built from scratch, following a model approved by both companies, and will be delivered to Grifols on a ‘turnkey’ basis, so that they will be fully equipped and have the corresponding permits and licenses.
Shinji Wada, president of the company responsible for Grifols’s plasma collection centers, said: “This agreement will allow us to increase the supply of plasma for fractionation. It will also free up human resources and, thanks to the agreed formula, will also release considerable financial resources.”