The Almac Group has completed a 67,000-sq.-ft. expansion to its facility in Durham, NC, which now houses the company’s Clinical Services and Diagnostics Divisions. Staff from Almac Diagnostics’ nearby facility in Durham has relocated to the site.

This expansion increased storage capacity for clinical supplies with an additional 3,000 pallet locations. In recent months, the company also completed a specialist clinical supplies storage facility in Craigavon, U.K. and is developing of a 240,000 sq.-ft. North American headquarters facility in Pennsylvania, which is scheduled for completion in 2010. This new facility will initially house Clinical Services and Clinical Technologies operations with expansion from other divisions in the Almac Group.

Donna Christopher, vice president of operations at Almac Clinical Services, Durham site, said, “This latest investment by Almac will act as a platform for us to serve the increasing demands of our client base who are seeking faster routes to get their products through the clinical development process. We now have 200 employees at our NC operations, which is more than five times the number we had when we first started out in 1998 with a team of 35. With over 20 years’ experience in clinical supply management Almac are recognized as a strategic partner in the clinical supply process by most of the world’s pharma and biotech companies. This increase in capacity is a sign of our commitment to offer market driven solutions to our customers.”