Fluor and Bayer Break Ground as Construction Starts for New Cell Culture Technology Center in California
May 09 2019 - 9:27AM
Business Wire
Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced that a groundbreaking
event was held today for Bayer’s first-of-a-kind cell culture
technology center in Berkeley, California. Fluor is providing a
single point of responsibility for engineering, procurement,
construction management and commissioning, qualification and
validation of the facility that will produce oncology and other
therapeutics.
“We look forward to working with Fluor on this exciting project,
and benefiting from the company’s expertise in engineering,
procurement, construction management and validation — all of which
will allow us to have flexible and scalable facilities for the
future and enable us to bring new medicines to patients faster,”
said Judy Chou, Ph.D., senior vice president and global head of
Bayer Biotech.
“We are delighted that Fluor’s innovative plant layout and
modularized construction solution will allow Bayer’s strategically
important manufacturing facility to be designed and built with
capital efficiency and a focus on optimizing the project’s
schedule,” said Juan G. Hernandez, president of Fluor’s Life
Sciences and Advanced Manufacturing business line. “The facility’s
user-friendly, reconfigurable design will facilitate increased
speed to market for new life saving treatments.”
The state-of-the-art Single Use Technology (SUT)
biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility will be constructed at
Bayer’s Berkeley site using land from a demolished office building.
In 2018, Fluor engaged in the conceptual study and front-end
engineering design for the project which is due for completion in
early 2021.
Bayer selected GE Healthcare to provide its FlexFactoryTM SUT
platform which will be incorporated into the project through a
collaborative subcontract to Fluor. GE Healthcare is supplying all
major unit operations, systems and ancillary equipment and
components.
Fluor’s scope also includes process integration for the entire
facility and all associated utilities. Fluor’s San Francisco office
will lead the project with support from the company’s offices in
Greenville, South Carolina and Gliwice, Poland.
About Fluor Corporation
Founded in 1912, Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) is a global
engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction and maintenance
company that transforms the world by building prosperity and
empowering progress. Fluor serves its clients by designing,
building and maintaining safe, well executed, capital-efficient
projects around the world. With headquarters in Irving, Texas,
Fluor ranks 153 on the Fortune 500 list with revenue of $19.2
billion in 2018 and has more than 53,000 employees worldwide. For
more information, please visit www.fluor.com or follow Fluor on
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