SAFC Breaks Ground On Madison, WI Expansion To Meet Demand For Highly Potent API Manufacturing Services
ST. LOUIS, Missouri - SAFC, a leading custom chemical manufacturer and a division of Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, announced that it has broken ground on a major expansion at its Madison, Wisconsin, facility. The 38,000 square foot expansion will more than double the size of its existing 23,500 square foot building.
The expansion is being driven by an increase in demand for custom chemical manufacturing services for highly potent APIs, including category III and category IV compounds. "The expansion further positions us to provide unparalleled service in the high potency API manufacturing market," said Frank Wicks, President of Sigma-Aldrich Fine Chemicals. "Initiating the Madison expansion reinforces the decision we made back in June when we acquired Tetrionics. The new addition allows us to continue to grow our high potency business and provides resources that enables us to meet the needs of current and future customers."
The new two-story addition will include:
- Expanded research and development suites and scale up laboratories
- New analytical laboratories & equipment
- Five new cGMP kilolab manufacturing suites
- Increased warehousing and storage space
The company anticipates the expansion will be complete in early 2006.
About SAFC
SAFC is the custom manufacturing group within Sigma-Aldrich that focuses
on both biochemical production and the manufacturing of complex, multi-step
organic synthesis of APIs and key intermediates. SAFC has manufacturing
facilities around the world dedicated to providing manufacturing services for
companies requiring a reliable partner to produce their custom manufactured
materials. For more information about SAFC please visit our website at
http://www.safcglobal.com.
About Sigma-Aldrich
Sigma-Aldrich is a leading Life Science and High Technology company. Our
biochemical and organic chemical products and kits are used in scientific and
genomic research, biotechnology, pharmaceutical development, the diagnosis of
disease and as key components in pharmaceutical and other high technology
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government institutions, hospitals, and in industry. Over one million
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Source: SAFC