Catal­ent ex­pands deep-freeze op­er­a­tions in Chi­nese free trade zone

As the world watch­es the Win­ter Olympic Games wrap up the fi­nal week in Bei­jing, a Catal­ent site 750 miles away from the Olympic Vil­lage is get­ting its own deep freeze award. The Waigao­qiao Free Trade Zone fa­cil­i­ty is get­ting an up­grade to help emerg­ing biotechs and oth­er com­pa­nies that re­quire deep freez­ing for clin­i­cal tri­als.

Catal­ent is ex­pand­ing the site to cre­ate ad­di­tion­al ca­pac­i­ty for tem­per­a­ture-con­trolled stor­age and dis­tri­b­u­tion of clin­i­cal sup­plies. It al­so plans to add more stor­age for sec­ondary pack­ag­ing.

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