WuXi Bi­o­log­ics earns lo­cal nod for ex­pan­sion to grow­ing MA man­u­fac­tur­ing site

WuXi Bi­o­log­ics’ Mass­a­chu­setts man­u­fac­tur­ing site isn’t even up and run­ning yet, and it’s al­ready get­ting an up­grade.

An ex­pan­sion of the WuXi plant at The Re­ac­to­ry bio­man­u­fac­tur­ing park five miles north­east of down­town Worces­ter was ap­proved by the city’s plan­ning board last week. The site is the Chi­nese com­pa­ny’s first in the US and will now em­ploy 150 peo­ple, once it’s up and run­ning.

The orig­i­nal plans in­clud­ed a two-sto­ry, 107,000 square-foot build­ing with a mez­za­nine. That has now been up­grad­ed to four sto­ries, with an ad­di­tion­al 5,000 square feet added to its 198,000 square-foot plan. In an Aug. 18 meet­ing, the Worces­ter Busi­ness De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion’s Rober­ta Bryan said it was ea­ger to see con­struc­tion get start­ed, and wel­come the new in­dus­try to the city.

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