Alcami Expands Services at Garner Facility, Looks to Hire 95 Statewide
Alcami Corp. expands its Garner, NC facility, adding advanced pharmaceutical storage capabilities and planning to hire 95 new employees statewide.
By Barry Teater | August 8, 2024
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Durham-based Alcami Corp., a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) with a growing presence in North Carolina, has expanded the capabilities of its new pharmaceutical-storage facility in Garner and expects to add 95 positions to its workforce in the state.
The 65,000-square-foot Garner facility, which opened in January with controlled, ambient storage capacity, can now accept shipments for a wide range of storage conditions, including stability chamber storage, refrigerated storage, freezer, ultra-low freezer, and cryogenic (liquid nitrogen) storage as well as custom conditions, the company announced in a news release.
In addition, the site now offers a full suite of materials management and support services that facilitate “the full product development, storage and commercialization journey,” including onsite aliquoting/sampling in grade C sampling booths, refrigerated transport, labeling, cycle counting/inventory management, custom kitting and reference standards management, the company noted.
The expanded capabilities offer clients flexible storage conditions for temperature-sensitive vaccines, biopharma therapies, cell banks, tissues, pharmaceutical compounds, raw materials, components and medical devices.
“Alcami’s new facility is well positioned to fill previously unmet market demand,” said Laurent Boer, president of Alcami Pharma Storage and Services. “The pipeline of complex medicines – exactly the type of ground-breaking products that life science companies in RTP (Research Triangle Park) work on – is only increasing. The biopharmaceutical materials and products in these drugs require very specific warehouse conditions that this new facility provides.
“But what truly sets us apart as a CDMO is our ability to offer a comprehensive pharma storage network paired with seamless access to our integrated laboratory and manufacturing services,” Boer said. “From development to delivery, Alcami has the capabilities to care for and secure product within our own network, reducing risk and streamlining efficiency.”
The Garner facility, located at 5100 Jones Sausage Road, about six miles southeast of downtown Raleigh, expands Alcami’s secure GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) storage network to six U.S. locations across the Northeast, Southeast and West Coast.
Since opening its Garner site in January, Alcami has created 25 new jobs onsite, including operations technicians and specialists, quality/regulatory specialists and site managers.
The facility “is yet another step in the company’s growth and steadfast investment and commitment to the Research Triangle Park and the state of North Carolina,” the company added.
Alcami has over 1,000 employees at six campuses throughout the United States, and 545 of them are based in North Carolina. In addition to the company’s headquarters and labs in Durham and the new storage facility in Garner, Alcami has facilities in Morrisville and Wilmington.
The company plans to add 95 more positions across the state by the end of the year. On Aug. 1 the company’s website listed 25 open positions at its various U.S. facilities in the Carolinas and several other states.
Alcami was formed in 2013 by the merger of AAIPharma Services Corp. of Wilmington and Cambridge Major Laboratories of Germantown, Wis. The company was re-branded as Alcami in 2016.
Alcami’s private-equity ownership includes GHO Capital, The Vistria Group and Ampersand Capital Partners.
Barry Teater is a writer for NCBiotech.
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