The €16m production facility includes two new clean rooms for labs and offices, and for manufacturing filters and bags.
Filters are used to sterile-filter biopharmaceuticals or to obtain active pharmaceutical ingredients from liquids, while Single-use bags are used as flexible containers for preparing nutrients or utilized for transporting and storing biological active ingredients.
The company said that filters and bags are increasingly being requested as combined, sterile-packaged and ready-to-connect single-use assemblies by many biopharmaceutical industries.
By the end of 2012, the company’s bag manufacturing operations at Concord, California, US production site will be moved to Yauco, Puerto Rico site.