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Simtra BioPharma opens a $250 million expansion on Bloomington's west side
The Today in Bloomington team
Simtra BioPharma Solutions opened its new manufacturing facility Monday, with Gov. Mike Braun and Mayor Kerry Thomson speaking before the ribbon cutting. The New Jersey-based company's roughly 150,000-square-foot building could potentially double its output of sterile injectable drugs, officials say, Inside INdiana Business reports. WRTV's photo caption lists it at 153,000 square feet.
The new building makes up about a quarter of Simtra's campus
Floor area of the new building, beside places you know
3 football fields would fit inside the new building
Sources: Inside INdiana Business, Indiana Public Media
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| Floor area | |
|---|---|
| The new building | 150,000 sq. ft. |
| Simtra's Bloomington campus | 600,000 sq. ft. |
| A football field | 57,600 sq. ft. (end zones included) |
| A Walmart Supercenter | about 180,000 sq. ft. |
WRTV says Simtra expects the expansion to create hundreds of high-wage jobs. Braun said: “You're looking at 250 million dollars, hundreds of jobs and you're investing a quarter of a billion.”
- Construction began: June 2024
- Indiana workforce: more than 1,600
- Equipment: 30-square-meter freeze dryers, called lyophilizers
The expansion by the numbers
- $250 million
- invested in the expansion
- 450
- jobs created so far, according to the company
- 3
- sterile-filling lines in the two-story Building H
Sources: WRTV, Indiana Public Media
Sources: Inside INdiana Business, WRTV, Indiana Public Media