GE wins contract to design manufacturing facility in Brazil

Posted on 10 Apr 2013 by The Manufacturer

GE Healthcare has signed an agreement to design a new plant-based multipurpose manufacturing facility for Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz in Brazil.

This is the first contract for the global alliance between GE Healthcare, the Buckinghamshire-based subsidiary of General Electric, and iBio, announced in July 2012. It will combine iBioLaunch, iBio’s plant-based manufacturing platform, with GE Healthcare’s technological capabilities for biopharmaceutical and vaccine manufacturing, building further on an existing development and marketing agreed in 2010. Olivier Loeillot,…

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