SEPTEMBER 2004
Tied In (cover)
Wanted: Quick
Sites and Skills
Erie Still Coming Back
Churn High in Lehigh
Almost There
in Bethlehem
Historic Period in Philadelphia?
Downtown Scranton Project One of
Many in Region
for Aventis Pasteur
Pittsburgh Takes
Bio Route
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PENNSYLVANIA SPOTLIGHT
Downtown Scranton Project One
of Many in Region for Aventis Pasteur
of Many in Region for Aventis Pasteur
As Shire exits the vaccine business, Aventis Pasteur is building on it. The company is moving its Vaccess America subsidiary into a former department store in Scranton, bringing approximately 100 employees of the vaccination service provider to the 21,000-sq.-ft. (1,951-sq.-m.) space.
That's just one of the more than $127 million in investments in
the Northeast region of the state made by Aventis Pasteur, in part because
its chairman and CEO David J. Williams hails from the area. Sister company
Aventis' vaccine unit as a whole reported second quarter 2004 sales
of $363 million, and the unit's prospects in the U.S. have been bolstered
by its Fluzone vaccine, the only influenza vaccine approved for use
in infants.
The unit's other area investments include a $77.5-million formulation and filling facility on the company campus in Swiftwater, new facilities devoted to meningitis vaccine manufacturing and vaccine development, and a 75,000-sq.-ft. (6,968-sq.-m.) distribution building at the Stauffer Industrial Park in Taylor.
Elsewhere in Lackawanna County, Caterpillar Logistics Services has become the second tenant at First Industrial Realty Trust's 860-acre (348-hectare) Covington Industrial Park, joining Maytag Corp. The 252,000-sq.-ft. (23,411-sq.-m.) logistics facility sits in the park's 225-acre (91-hectare) KOZ, which exempts the tenant from state and local taxes for 10 years.
Meanwhile, Erie Plastics isn't the only packaging firm expanding in the state. In fact, it might find some business with a new tenant in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area, Graham Packaging. The plastic bottle manufacturer is setting up so close to customer Dial Corp.'s plant in the Valmont Industrial Park that only the distance travelled by a conveyor will separate them. The 100-employee operation, in space formerly occupied by American Home Patient, will be the company's seventh in Pennsylvania, among 57 plants worldwide.
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The unit's other area investments include a $77.5-million formulation and filling facility on the company campus in Swiftwater, new facilities devoted to meningitis vaccine manufacturing and vaccine development, and a 75,000-sq.-ft. (6,968-sq.-m.) distribution building at the Stauffer Industrial Park in Taylor.
Elsewhere in Lackawanna County, Caterpillar Logistics Services has become the second tenant at First Industrial Realty Trust's 860-acre (348-hectare) Covington Industrial Park, joining Maytag Corp. The 252,000-sq.-ft. (23,411-sq.-m.) logistics facility sits in the park's 225-acre (91-hectare) KOZ, which exempts the tenant from state and local taxes for 10 years.
Meanwhile, Erie Plastics isn't the only packaging firm expanding in the state. In fact, it might find some business with a new tenant in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area, Graham Packaging. The plastic bottle manufacturer is setting up so close to customer Dial Corp.'s plant in the Valmont Industrial Park that only the distance travelled by a conveyor will separate them. The 100-employee operation, in space formerly occupied by American Home Patient, will be the company's seventh in Pennsylvania, among 57 plants worldwide.