The opening celebration of global medical device company
MEDRAD Inc.’s new, $45 M, sustainable, manufacturing facility will pave the way for 450 to 500 new jobs in the region, making it the largest source of high tech manufacturing jobs in Western Pennsylvania.
The LEED-designed, 120,000 sf facility is located on a 20-acre site in the Victory Road Business Park in Clinton Township, the second major MEDRAD plant to open in a year. The facility currently employs about 70 and the company employs 1800. MEDRAD’s disposable products --high-pressure, large volume syringes used for medical imaging procedures, magnetic resonance and angiography--will be manufactured, distributed and warehoused on the site.
"This is a big day for MEDRAD and Southwestern Pennsylvania," beamed John Friel, president and CEO during the facility's grand opening this week who was joined by Gov. Ed Rendell and Dan Onorato for the occasion. "Locating here speaks well for the quality of the people in our workforce here. It's the people who make a difference."
The plant features the latest in technology, a “clean room” environment where the disposable syringes are manufactured in a highly sterile, carefully monitored space. The project also achieved LEED certification for developing on a former brownfield site, as well as its high-reflective roof to reduce utility costs, a storm sewer system to allow for ground infiltration prior to runoff, the recycling of 75 percent of the project construction waste and an elaborate indoor air quality plan.
Mascaro Construction was the general contractor, Kling Stubbins was the architect and CRB Consulting Engineers worked on the facility.
Writer: Deb Smit
Source: John Friel, MEDRAD Inc., Shannon Baker, WordWrite Communications
Image courtesy MEDRAD Inc.