Almac opens a £20-million cold chain facility in Northern Ireland

Almac Group, which handles contract manufacturing from clinical to commercial scale, has opened a 95,000-sq. ft. facility in Craigavon, its Northern Ireland headquarters. The facility represents the equivalent of 3,000-pallet capacity. Components include -15°C to -25°C storage, additional 2°C - 8°C secondary production rooms, 3PL processing areas and a custom designed clinical labelling suite.

“This new facility at our global headquarters expands our cold storage capacity by 300% and our frozen storage capabilities by over 50%, enabling us to better serve our clients, and ultimately patients, worldwide,” commented Alan Armstrong, Almac CEO. Orphan drug development, plus the desire to provide clinical-to-commercial scale for biologic and biosimilar production, were factors in the facility design.