DuPont Nutrition & Health has announced the completion of a $10 million investment to upgrade its probiotics pilot facility in Madison, Wis., allowing for increased pace of new product development and improved delivery times on pilot material for clinical trials and customer evaluations. Construction on the Madison probiotics pilot area, completed in phases over the past six months, provides increased capacity and speed for new product development. This in turn improves overall scale up capability and a more seamless transition to commercial scale production.
The pilot area features new equipment, data collection, laboratories, instrumentation, and specialized work space for probiotic development and scale up. The upgrades that quadrupled the pilot area have already increased bandwidth to simultaneously run more development projects while improving scale up efficiency and time to market.
“Given the explosive rise in demand for probiotics products all around the globe, this project allows us to aggressively pursue our goal to be the No. 1 probiotics supplier in the world,” said Matthias Heinzel, DuPont Nutrition & Health President. “These expansion efforts show our commitment to becoming bigger and stronger with our capability to meet demand, and our facilities, and qualified staff to handle the significant growth we foresee in this sector.”