Laying the foundation stone of the Kirov blood plasma factory

December 2006, in the presence of the Russian Health Minister Mr. Surabov, the representative of the Russian president Mr. Konovalov and the director of the Russian health authority Mr. Chabriew, the foundation stone of a new Russian factory, manufacturing blood plasma products was laid at Kirov. Representing Glatt Ingenieurtechnik Weimar, where this green-field turn-key project is being realised was managing director Mr. Böber.

The factory will be built in accordance with the European GMP regulations and comprise of 36000 m2 for the production of various blood plasma products from 600.000 litres of blood plasma annually. Production begin is anticipated end of 2009. The total investment amounts to a 3-digit million Euro amount and will create permanent employment. Minister Surabov emphasized, that presently this is the largest pharmaceutical project in Russia, and will lift the entire Russian blood service to an advanced superior level.

No wonder that the laying of the foundation stone was witnessed by 37 journalists from the Russian press and transmitted by every Russian television station.

As soon as Glatt Weimar had confirmation of the order in 2005, project engineering began. Construction has been in progress since July 2006, creating employment for engineering, construction, transport and other service oriented companies. This project also ties up considerable manpower, additionally creating jobs for various subcontractors, many of which are resident in Thuringia, the German residential state of Glatt Weimar, who are globally responsible for all turn-key factories for the pharmaceutical, food, feed and fine chemical industries, amongst them almost 50 projects in Russia and in the Baltic States.

Presently, we are working on another large project in Russia, a chemical factory for the Russian oil company Lukoil, about which we hope to report soon.

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TTC Poster Competition

At the 3rd Granulation Meeting organised by the University of Sheffield in June, Helen Hapgood from Monash University, Australia was awarded the TTC Best Poster Prize, demonstrating and quoting that whilst ”granulation is moving from art to science, granulation as art is worth considering”.
With each year the Granulation Meetings have increasing in size and popularity, with 70 participants of the relevant industries at the first, 150 at the second and 215 at this year’s.

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