A top manufacturer of “clean rooms” used for making drugs and other products that require sterile environments will open a new $14.2 million Manheim factory as soon as this year.
Gov. Tom Wolf’s office announced the plan this week, touting its role in attracting Montgomery County-based AES Clean Technology to maintain and expand its footprint in Pennsylvania.
The Wolf administration offered a $485,000 state economic development grant and a second $97,000 grant for training workers at the Manheim facility, a press release from the governor’s office said.
AES Technology’s corporate headquarters are in Montgomeryville, but its existing manufacturing facilities are limited to a location outside Atlanta. The new Manheim Location at 1 Clair Blvd. will be a next-generation facility for building clean rooms, AES President and CEO Grant Merrill told LNP | LancasterOnline.
The company uses prefabricated and carefully packaged construction designs so they can be quickly assembled at their destined sites – primarily factories making new drugs, medical devices and, yes, vaccines, Merrill said.
“I’m proud to say a huge majority of the COVID-19 vaccines that are produced in the U.S. are inside and AES clean room facility in one aspect or another,” Merril said.
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