Tuffys Pet Treats Plant Opening in Delano, MN

Tuffy’s Treat Company opens new pet treat facility

Dec 23, 2020

The 174,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art pet treat facility in Delano, MN expands Tuffy’s footprint.

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Amicus project wins interior design award

Amicus project wins interior design award

Dec 21, 2020

Amicus project wins IIDA PA/NJ/DE Design Award for Best of Corporate 20,000 SF+.

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Modular processes and facilities enable flexible vaccine manufacturing

Modular processes and facilities enable flexible vaccine manufacturing

Dec 7, 2020

Peter Walters, Director of ATMP, discusses modular facility design and why flexibility is paramount for the current manufacturing industry.

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Balancing speed and safety in a regulatory strategy

Balancing speed and safety in a regulatory strategy

Nov 30, 2020

Myers and Pelletier discuss the components to a strong regulatory strategy that can help ensure future rapid response.

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Meet Roshni Dutton, PhD, PEng

Meet Roshni Dutton, PhD, PEng

Nov 18, 2020

Dr. Dutton offers GMP design and compliance services to CRB’s Canadian clients.

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MycoTechnology featured in Food Engineering as 2020 Sustainable Plant of the Year

MycoTechnology featured in Food Engineering as 2020 Sustainable Plant of the Year

Nov 6, 2020

Leveraging a ONEsolution approach, CRB delivered MycoTechnology’s new headquarters and production facility in a way that honored the company’s commitment to sustainability.

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Tony Moses

Tony Moses appointed to Institute of Food Technologists Board

Nov 5, 2020

Tony Moses, a process engineer with CRB’s Omaha office, was recently appointed to serve as a director on the Aksarben Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Board.

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Connect with CRB at 2020 ISPE Annual Meeting

Connect with CRB at 2020 ISPE Annual Meeting

Oct 30, 2020

We will see you at the 2020 ISPE Annual Meeting and Expo Virtual Conference!

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ONEsolution™ Webinar

ONEsolution™ Webinar

Oct 27, 2020

Quality. Cost. Schedule. Pick Three.

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Manufacturing Considerations for Cell and Gene Therapy Production by Allan Bream

Oct 20, 2020

Allan Bream is featured in BioProcess International with his article, “Trends in Facility Design—In-House Manufacturing Considerations for Cell and Gene Therapy Production.”

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multimodal webinar

Multimodal manufacturing webinar—the smart way to make space

Oct 16, 2020

Noel Maestre and Peter Walters will be hosting a webinar on multimodal manufacturing via The Medicine Maker on November 11th at 12:00 pm EST.

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CRB opens 20th office in Omaha, Nebraska

CRB opens 20th office in Omaha, Nebraska

Oct 8, 2020

New site in Omaha is CRB’s 20th office, expanding company’s footprint across North America and Europe.

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Jason Robertson

Robertson to participate in Food Engineering’s 2020 Top 100 Webinar

Oct 7, 2020

Jason Robertson will join industry professionals to explore the challenges facing food and beverage companies in 2020.

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OWS

Wrampe’s Five Ways to Achieve Warp Speed

Oct 1, 2020

Jarrod Wrampe’s Five Ways to Achieve Warp Speed featured in Contract Pharma.

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Manufacturing equipment vial filler

CRB design-build with Grand River Aseptic Manufacturing picked to manufacture COVID-19 solution

Oct 1, 2020

Grand River Aseptic Manufacturing has partnered with the U.S. government to accelerate the domestic manufacturing of a COVID-19 countermeasure.

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SlateXpace

Meet SlateXpace™, CRB’s latest solution

Sep 30, 2020

Meet SlateXpace™ – a multimodal facility solution that delivers unmatched industry speed, flexibility and adaptability for the advanced therapy market.

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Lean Construction Institute (LCI) 2020 Virtual Presentation

Sep 25, 2020

Megan Arnold, Shannon Chase and Daniela Gracey will present at this year’s virtual congress.

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Focus on ONEsolution integrated project delivery brings Jim Elliott to CRB

Focus on ONEsolution integrated project delivery brings Jim Elliott to CRB

Sep 17, 2020

Elliott will direct all aspects of project delivery – from lean and safety emphasis through to quality control and customer experience.

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Stropoli featured in Engineering Angles

Stropoli featured in Engineering Angles

Sep 17, 2020

Are you ready for robotics?

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Meeting on the Mesa-News

CRB at Cell & Gene Meeting on the Mesa

Sep 15, 2020

CRB is a proud sponsor of the Alliance for Regenerative Medicine’s (ARM), 2020’s Cell & Gene Meetings on the Mesa.  

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Emily Thompson

Thompson speaking at AAPS 2020 PHARMSCI 360

Sep 14, 2020

Emily Thompson will be speaking at the AAPS 2020 PharmSci 360 Conference on Wednesday, November 4th.

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ENR highlights CRB’s work in plant-based foods

ENR highlights CRB’s work in plant-based foods

Sep 10, 2020

The plant-based food market sees a demand surge as consumers seek out new and novel products. Producers are partnering with firms like CRB to design and build research and production facilities that will adapt and grow as the segment’s products evolve.

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CRB speaking at I2SL 2020

CRB speaking at I2SL 2020

Sep 9, 2020

I2SL Annual Conference has gone virtual. On October 6th and 7th learn from CRB’s subject matter experts covering critical and relevant topics on laboratory spaces.

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IES recognizes award winning project, Amicus Therapeutics

IES recognizes award winning project, Amicus Therapeutics

Sep 2, 2020

Amicus Therapeutics receives a lighting award from the Illuminating Engineering Society, the premier lighting community dedicated to promoting the art and science of quality lighting. 

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Amicus Therapeutics wins 2020 ENR Regional Award for Best Project

Amicus Therapeutics wins 2020 ENR Regional Award for Best Project

Aug 31, 2020

CRB is proud to announce that the Amicus Therapeutics Research and Gene Therapy Center facility has won Engineering News-Record (ENR) MidAtlantic’s 2020 Best Projects (Award of Merit) in the Healthcare category.

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Amicus featured in Lab Manager Magazine

Amicus featured in Lab Manager Magazine

Aug 26, 2020

CRB project, Amicus Therapeutics, was featured in Lab Manager Magazine – highlighting design features of modern laboratory space.

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Webinar: The multimodal movement

Webinar: The multimodal movement

Aug 20, 2020

The multimodal manufacturing movement – you don’t need to know the future to be ready for it.

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CRB speaking at Animal Health Corridor Summit

CRB speaking at Animal Health Corridor Summit

Aug 19, 2020

Interested in new ideas, technologies, and services in the animal health industry? Don’t miss out on all of the great content at this year’s Animal Health Digital Summit.

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Lab of the future, Paskanik featured in Robotics Tomorrow

Lab of the future, Paskanik featured in Robotics Tomorrow

Aug 18, 2020

What will the laboratory of the future look like, especially when dealing with post-COVID realities?

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CRB at Animal Health in the Heartland

CRB at Animal Health in the Heartland

Aug 3, 2020

Animal Health in the Heartland has gone virtual. On August 18th, learn from CRB’s subject matter experts covering critical, relevant topics in the animal health market.

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Rucker presents wet pet food processing webinar

Rucker presents wet pet food processing webinar

Jul 28, 2020

Ben Rucker joins Alfa Laval to present “Wet Pet Food Processing – Bringing the highest quality products to your furry family” on Thursday, July 30, 2020.

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ConstructSecure Platinum Award

CRB earns ConstructSecure Platinum Safety Award

Jul 23, 2020

The cloud-based mobile platform that empowers clients to make smarter risk management decisions, has announced the recipients of its prestigious safety awards.

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Viral vectors

Viral vector production: top 3 design considerations

Jul 20, 2020

Peter Walters is featured in Pharma Manufacturing’s Engineering Angles column, with a feature entitled “Don’t pigeonhole your viral vector production.”

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Dorn featured in Pharmaceutical Engineering

Dorn featured in Pharmaceutical Engineering

Jul 10, 2020

Lisa Dorn was published in Pharmaceutical Engineering sharing the data gathered during the latest ISPE Barrier Survey.

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Integrated project delivery gains from new CRB office in Toronto

Integrated project delivery gains from new CRB office in Toronto

Jul 8, 2020

Company’s first Canada office supports ONEsolution™ model to aid critical growth market for life sciences

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New Michigan aseptic fill finish facility benefits from ONEsolution™ approach

New Michigan aseptic fill finish facility benefits from ONEsolution™ approach

Jul 2, 2020

Grand River Aseptic Manufacturing taps CRB to triple its footprint and meet rising client demand

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CRB relocates Kalamazoo office

CRB relocates Kalamazoo office

Jun 29, 2020

CRB Kalamazoo is moving to a new office that will support the company’s growth.

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Virtual factory acceptance testing and remote observation capabilities

Virtual factory acceptance testing and remote observation capabilities

Jun 1, 2020

CRB is leveraging wearable augmented reality technology and video conferencing platforms to perform factory acceptance testing, site observations, and other expert witnessing events remotely.

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How data can help prepare your facility for a pandemic

How data can help prepare your facility for a pandemic

Jun 1, 2020

David Keith, Director of Strategic Facility Planning, was recently featured in Contract Pharma discussing how data proves to be a powerful tool in the face of uncertainty.

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ISPE Biopharma

ATMP Manufacturing Protocols at ISPE Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing Conference!

May 28, 2020

Peter Walters and JP Bornholdt are presenting “ATMP Drug Products: Training for the Marathon” at the ISPE Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing Virtual Conference!

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ATMP

PDA Webinar: Creating Transformative Multi-Product Facilities

May 26, 2020

CRB’s Allan Bream and Emily Thompson will be hosting a webinar “Flip or Flop? Creating Transformative Multi-Product Facilities,” as part of the 2020 PDA Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products Month.

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Paul Skinner PE

Optimistic outlook for engineering and architecture firms despite COVID-19

May 22, 2020

CRB’s Paul Skinner, PE provides insight into industry market in annual ENR regional design firm ranking article.

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Webcast: Biopharma HVAC design in response to COVID-19

Webcast: Biopharma HVAC design in response to COVID-19

May 20, 2020

Mechanical Engineer Curt Firestine will participate in a webcast presented by Pharmaceutical Technology, “Strategies for Designing Adaptable, Resilient Bio/Pharma Facilities.”

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coronavirus vaccine

Coronavirus vaccines? Kulkarni and Boulanger weigh in on lofty goals

May 20, 2020

Niranjan Kulkarni, Ph.D. and Rob Boulanger, Ph.D. are featured in a Pharma Manufacturing article, “Coronavirus vaccines: The billion dose dash.”

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CRB at the ISPE Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing Virtual Conference

CRB at the ISPE Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing Virtual Conference

May 19, 2020

Niranjan Kulkarni, PhD, will speak on leveraging operational simulations for cell and gene therapy facilities during different phases of planning, construction and expansion.

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fill-finish-design

Behind-the-scenes of fill-finish design published in Pharma Manufacturing

May 7, 2020

Lisa Dorn, Senior Project Manager and Process Engineer at CRB, was recently featured in Pharma Manufacturing with an article titled, “Engineering Angles: Behind-the-scenes of fill-finish design.”

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Freshpet picks CRB to build new Texas processing facility

Freshpet picks CRB to build new Texas processing facility

May 6, 2020

CRB’s ONEsolution™ approach will help Freshpet close the gap between manufacturing processes for humans and their pets.

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Tom Rychlewski

Tom Rychlewski talks plant-based protein processing

Apr 24, 2020

Tom Rychlewski leverages CRB’s expertise for companies considering entry into the plant-based protein segment in Food Engineering‘s  “Plant-based protein market offers potential for product, processing innovation.”

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Lab Design Summit goes digital

Lab Design Summit goes digital

Apr 23, 2020

Mark Paskanik, AIA, NCARB will lead a webinar on “Innovative Science with Less and the Lab Future” at the Lab Design Digital Summit.  Taking place May 11-13, this digital summit will feature a series of informative webinars that will bring together lab management leaders with experts in the laboratory and healthcare design community.

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Jason Robertson

Jason Robertson on 2020 food and beverage capital projects

Apr 23, 2020

As the food and beverage market shifts to a new way of working amid COVID-19, manufacturers remain hopeful for 2020. Jason Robertson joins Food Processing to recap industry figures for 2019 and share forward-facing food and forward-facing challenges in “2020 Capital Spending Outlook: Getting to Yes on Capital Projects.”

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ATMP 101

ISPE blog explores ATMP production challenges and opportunities

Apr 20, 2020

Blog by CRB subject matter experts examines new ways to speed the path from lab to production.

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Tech Tank Webinar

Tech Tank webinar series–today’s challenges are tomorrow’s solutions

Apr 9, 2020

Learn from CRB’s subject matter experts covering critical, relevant topics in pharmaceutical manufacturing–challenges we solve today will be solutions we implement tomorrow.    

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CRB project for Pfizer wins 2020 Facility of the Year Award

CRB project for Pfizer wins 2020 Facility of the Year Award

Apr 8, 2020

Engineered and designed by CRB, Pfizer’s Andover Clinical Manufacturing Facility focuses on integration and flexibility to speed patient therapies.

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OSD Trends

The importance of flexibility in OSD and ATMP facilities featured in Pharmaceutical Technology

Apr 6, 2020

The need for quick build times, flexibility, and production efficiency is driving trends.

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Coronavirus

Pandemic demands collaboration

Apr 2, 2020

Vaccines and therapies can’t come soon enough for a world desperate to limit or erase the threat of COVID-19. But there’s good news from an industry long accustomed to a speed-to-market mentality: Pharmaceutical companies are fully engaged.

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Integrated design and engineering: Focused on the end goal

Integrated design and engineering: Focused on the end goal

Mar 27, 2020

Mike Barrett, Biotech Business Unit Leader at CRB’s Raleigh, NC office, was recently featured in an article in Pharma’s Almanac entitled,  “Integrated Design and Engineering: Focused on the End Goal.”

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Process simulations can bridge R&D with production

Process simulations can bridge R&D with production

Mar 24, 2020

Phil Lyman shows how simulations can navigate tricky path from research to commercial production.

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Steve Pflantz

Steve Pflantz on backup strategies for automation controls

Mar 4, 2020

Steve Pflantz, PE offers backup strategies and considerations in Food Engineering’s “How to ensure your automation system can be recovered.”

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New York Times Magazine explores lab’s work with gene drives

New York Times Magazine explores lab’s work with gene drives

Feb 24, 2020

CRB-designed facility supports work to remap mosquito genes in fight against infectious disease

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viral vector manufacturing

ATMP industry update – countering the viral vector shortage

Feb 19, 2020

Peter Walters is featured in Pharma Manufacturing’s Engineering Angles column, with a feature entitled “Countering the viral vector shortage.”

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oligonucleotide synthesis

Bill Jarvis on oligonucleotide synthesis

Feb 17, 2020

Bill Jarvis featured in Pharmaceutical Technology’s “Designing Commercial-Scale Oligonucleotide Synthesis.”

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Plant-based food manufacturing lab featured in Lab Manager Magazine

Plant-based food manufacturing lab featured in Lab Manager Magazine

Feb 13, 2020

The North Carolina Food Innovation Lab will support every step of product development in its goal to serve as a catalyst for plant-based food research and manufacturing.

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Steve Pflantz

Pflantz on IIoT-based sensor systems with existing controls systems

Feb 5, 2020

Steve Pflantz is featured in Food Engineering’s “Employing wireless sensors without a clear goal could prove inefficient.”

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Carmine Stropoli CRB Life Science Technologist

CRB welcomes Life Sciences Technologist Carmine Stropoli, PE

Feb 4, 2020

CRB is pleased to announce that Carmine Stropoli has joined the organization as Life Sciences Technologist.

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CRB expands architectural design capabilities in Orange County

CRB expands architectural design capabilities in Orange County

Jan 30, 2020

We have expanded our architectural design capabilities and client base in the western region with the addition of all the employees of Orange County-based architectural firm R2A Architecture (R2A).

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ISPE Aseptic Conference

Connect with CRB at ISPE Aseptic Conference

Jan 22, 2020

CRB is a proud sponsor of the 2020 ISPE Aseptic Conference which will focus on providing flexible and reliable solutions for the implementation and management of the latest in aseptic, barrier, containment, and aseptic best practice technologies, including automated visual inspections.    

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Strategic Facility Planning for Cell and Gene Therapy Facilities

Strategic Facility Planning for Cell and Gene Therapy Facilities

Jan 22, 2020

David Keith, Director of Strategic Facility Planning at CRB, was recently featured in Pharma’s Almanac, with an article entitled, “Strategic Facility Planning for Cell and Gene Therapy Facilities.”  

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Rasmus Kidmose, Europe Business Development Director

CRB welcomes new Business Development Director in Europe

Jan 21, 2020

We are pleased to announce that Rasmus Kidmose has joined CRB as our European Business Development Director.

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Ben Rucker on minimally processed pet products

Ben Rucker on minimally processed pet products

Jan 21, 2020

Ben Rucker is featured in Pet Food Processing’s “3 key considerations for producing raw, minimally cooked pet products.”

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CAR-T Cell therapy

Isolator Design for Cell Therapy Facilities

Jan 20, 2020

Allan Bream, Bioprocess Specialist at CRB, was recently featured in Pharma’s Almanac, with an article entitled, “Isolator Design in Cell Therapy Facilities.” Cell and gene therapy manufacturing must be performed under aseptic conditions and with good aseptic handling practices to ensure patient safety. The use of isolators can help address this critical need, but designing isolators for advanced therapy medicinal product (ATMP) processes can be challenging.

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CRB’s life sciences lab and office building project featured in the news

CRB’s life sciences lab and office building project featured in the news

Jan 17, 2020

Fulton Labs, a life sciences laboratory and office building in Chicago’s Fulton Market neighborhood, was recently featured in the news for being the first of its kind in the region.

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Eric Danielson, CRB's newest Director of Business Development

CRB welcomes Eric Danielson as Director of Business Development

Jan 15, 2020

CRB is pleased to announce Eric Danielson has joined the company as Director of Business Development.

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Iain Siery on designing research facilities in CSE Magazine

Iain Siery on designing research facilities in CSE Magazine

Jan 14, 2020

Iain Siery, Senior Mechanical Engineer, shares his thoughts on research facility design in CSE Magazine.

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ISPE podcast released featuring Jochen Schmidt-Nawrot

ISPE podcast released featuring Jochen Schmidt-Nawrot

Jan 14, 2020

Jochen Schmidt-Nawrot is featured as a panelist on the latest ISPE Podcast, Water for Injection Using Non-Distillative Methods Webinar Q&A. Jochen

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mAb

Webinar: Multimodal ATMP facilities

Jan 10, 2020

Noel Maestre, PE and Emily Thompson, PE will be conducting a webinar via Cell and Gene Therapy Insights on how to deliver multi-product or multimodal Advanced Therapy Medicinal Product (ATMP) facilities to adapt to an evolving product pipeline.

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MycoTechnology named Sustainable Plant of the Year

MycoTechnology named Sustainable Plant of the Year

Jan 8, 2020

MycoTechnology was named winner of Food Engineering magazine’s 2020 Sustainable Plant of the Year for its new mushroom-based plant protein facility in Aurora, Colorado.

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CRB opens office in Orange County

CRB opens office in Orange County

Jan 7, 2020

Supporting our recent project growth in southern California, CRB is pleased to announce we’ve opened a new office in Tustin, Calif. The location will allow us to attract the best talent in the southern California region, pursue new business in Orange County and assist new and ongoing projects affiliated with its office in El Segundo, Calif.

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