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By Mary Page Bailey | May 31, 2022
DuPont (Wilmington, Del. ) announced the opening of its new DuPont Liveo Healthcare production facility in Cooper River, South Carolina, to better serve consumers around the world.
The site, in Berkeley County, will operate on the same quality criteria as DuPont’s healthcare industries materials site, the company’s long-standing biopharmaceutical production facility in Hemlock, Michigan. The Cooper River site will bring more extrusion capacity online over the next two years to serve strategic short-term consumers and expand its LiveoHealthcare visitor base with an additional medium-term offering.
“The investment in the production of biopharmaceutical remedies at Cooper River is a key step in our expansion strategy; supports our customers’ expansion and contributes to business continuity,” said Eugenio Toccalino, global chief commercial officer, DuPont Healthcare.
DuPont™ Liveo™ Healthcare is also expanding its production footprint regionally to help consumers locally, which will help lessen origin tension and allow consumers to grow in their respective markets. In the current part of 2022, the company plans to increase the capacity of biopharmaceutical silicone tubes in China to serve developing consumers in the region.
“Thanks to a close and strong collaboration between our DuPont team and our subcontractor partners, the structure of the new Cooper River site was completed in 18 months, without a singles protection incident,” said Bill Alexander, Cooper River unit and site manager for DuPont Liveo. . , and the facilities of MOLYKOTE”. The site has enabled the creation of 25 start-up posts, and another 25 posts are expected to be created as operations increase over the next two years,” Alexander added.
“For more than fourteen years, DuPont Cooper River has continued to diversify and reinvest in new products that ensure the viability of this Berkeley County plant. Innovation in life sciences and biotechnology is a developing sector with an annual economic impact of $11 billion and more than 40,000 jobs in the state of South Carolina. We thank DuPont for its commitment to this network and for creating more high-paying jobs for the local workforce,” said Kristen O. Lanier, Berkeley County Director of Economic Development.
In 2021, DuPont Cooper River expanded to include the manufacture of DuPont MOLYKOTE specialty lubricants.