Bilcare Invests in Facility Upgrades

Bilcare has begun a capital investment project in an effort to enhance its global footprint and increase capacity and capabilities. The company is upgrading its packaging, storage and distribution facilities at its U.S. headquarters in Phoenixville, PA. The initial phase of the project includes an overhaul of each of the company’s eight primary and 12 secondary packaging rooms.

The second phase involves the expansion of the company’s nearby storage and distribution facility to 72,000 sq.-ft. and the construction of four new secondary packaging rooms. The secondary packaging rooms will be completed this month and the primary packaging rooms are scheduled for completion early in 4Q2007.

“With the sophisticated systems required to manage the production and logistics of clinical trial supplies on a global basis, our expanded and upgraded U.S. facilities combined with our strong foothold in India, UK and Singapore, leave Bilcare well-positioned to take advantage of the trend toward global clinical trials,” said Vincent Santa Maria, Bilcare’s global clinical services president. “These facility improvements further enhance our distribution, storage and packaging capability, and allow Bilcare to provide a higher level of quality and service to our customers as they conduct clinical trials in the U.S. and throughout Europe and Asia.”