The Almac Group (Almac) has expanded 67,000sft to its Durham facility in North Carolina. Reportedly, the Durham facility comprises the company’s clinical services and diagnostics divisions.
The company said that Almac clinical services first began occupancy of the additional building on the campus in February 2008 and have since added a 30,000 square foot warehouse complete with two new loading docks.
In addition to the completion of a clinical supplies storage facility in Craigavon, UK and the ongoing development of a 240,000 square foot North American headquarters facility in Pennsylvania. The company has added 3,000 pallet locations with an increased storage capacity of clinical supplies in the Durham facility.
Moreover, the new facility is expected to initially house clinical services and clinical technologies operations with expansion from other divisions in the Almac Group.
The company also stated that the new facility in Durham was built to accommodate increased demand in outsourcing of clinical supply management services from Biotech and Pharma organisations. The additional facility, along with existing capacity is expected to increase the Durham campus to almost 138,000sft; more than double the size of their original operations.
Donna Christopher, vice president of operations of Almac clinical services at Durham, said: “This latest investment by Almac will act as a platform for us to serve the increasing demands of our client base who are seeking faster routes to get their products through the clinical development process. We now have 200 employees at our North Carolina operations which is more than five times the number we had when we first started out in 1998 with a team of 35.
“With over 20 years experience in clinical supply management Almac are recognised as a strategic partner in the clinical supply process by most of the world’s pharma and biotech companies. This increase in capacity is a sign of our commitment to offer market driven solutions to our customers.”