Portsmouth City Council completed a 120,000 sq ft warehouse at Dunsbury Park in Havant for BioPure Technologies, a fluid-path component manufacturer in the Watson-Marlow group. The facility is expected to create more than 120 engineering and manufacturing jobs.
Watson-Marlow will begin construction in October 2021 on a 150,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Devens, Massachusetts, with first production due in late 2022. The site will make peristaltic pumps, tubing and fluid path solutions for life sciences and process customers.
BioPure Technology, owned by Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group, will build a 120,000 sq ft fluid-path component factory at Dunsbury Park in Portsmouth, creating 120 jobs, with work starting later in summer 2020.
Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group, part of Spirax-Sarco, acquired Aflex Hose Limited and its US subsidiary for £61.4 million. Aflex, based in Halifax, England, makes PTFE-lined flexible hose for the pharmaceutical, food and chemical industries.