IRVING, Texas–(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
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