# GE Healthcare opens biotech manufacturing center in Stevenage, UK

GE Healthcare opened a biotechnology manufacturing center at the Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst campus in Stevenage, UK, which will produce a fiber-based biopharmaceutical purification platform from the first half of 2019.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2018-11-27
- Where: Stevenage, United Kingdom
- Status: announced
- Capacity: 3000 sq. ft (280 m2) of cleanroom space
- Products: fiber-based chromatography purification platform
- Sectors: [Medical Devices](https://endata.com/sectors/medical-devices.md)

## Companies

- [GE Healthcare](https://endata.com/companies/4246.md)

## Sources

- [stevenagecatalyst.com](https://www.stevenagecatalyst.com/ge-healthcare-to-open-biotechnology-manufacturing/), 2018-11-30: "In the first half of 2019, the center will start producing a fiber-based purification platform, which has the potential to significantly improve efficiency in the purification steps of manufacturing biopharmaceuticals, gene therapies and viral vectors."

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