KBI Biopharma Invests $150 Millionto Expand Commercial Manufacturing Facility in North California

Specifications:

Name:

KBI Biopharma Invests $150 Millionto Expand Commercial Manufacturing Facility in North California

Location:

North California

Company:

KBI Biopharma

Estimated Cost:

$150 Million

Source:

kbibiopharma.com

Introduction:
KBI Biopharma, Inc, plans to open a new facility for commercial manufacturing. The manufacturing site involves an investment of US$150 million. The facility will be located atResearch Triangle Park (RTP) in North Carolina.

Features:
The manufacturing facility covering an area of 140,000-sq-ftconsists of the latest innovation in automation and digitalisation. The new site consists of up to six 2,000-L, single-use bioreactor systems, and associated harvest and purification equipmentcapable of producing more than 100 commercial batches annually.

The new facility is designed with advanced technologies including data collection systems like batch records, electronic logbooks, paperless materials management, and laboratory information management systems for quality control data management. These advanced tools are useful for real-time processing, product quality monitoring, and future artificial intelligence technology adoption.

This facility will be used as acommercialisation optionfor both KBI’s existing and future partners thus increasing the client’scommercialisation strategies.

Thenew state-of-the-art facility is expected to complete its construction and start its operations in the first quarter of 2022.