APRIL 4, 2024 — CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA LAYOFFS
Continuing with its restructuring and cost-cutting initiative, the company has announced that it will be laying off an unknown number of employees at its plasmid DNA manufacturing facility in Carlsbad, California. The layoffs are scheduled for May 31, 2024. The decision was said to be driven by declining business conditions.
The layoffs follow the planned July 2024 closure of the company’s manufacturing facility for pipette tips, microcentrifuge tubes, and racks located in Petaluma, California which will see 74 employees laid off.
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023 — Original post…
Waltham, Massachusetts-based Thermo Fisher Scientific, a supplier of laboratory instruments, equipment, chemicals, and services, has announced the closure of two sites in Alachua, Florida.
The closures will impact 205 employees beginning on October 9, 2023, and continue through March 31, 2024.
A company spokesperson noted, "We believe that leveraging our global network to provide multiple capabilities, including process development, analytical development, and clinical and commercial cGMP manufacturing, in one location will help our customers deliver gene therapies to market faster."
"Therefore, as part of our viral vector services (VVS) strategy, we’re relocating the development, manufacturing, and production activities that we currently perform in Alachua, Florida, to our new Plainville, Massachusetts site."
"Our science and technology innovation work will remain in Alachua and we will continue to offer viral vector services at our sites in Cambridge, Lexington & Plainville, MA as well as Seneffe & Gosselies, Belgium."
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