May 19, 2021

PROTECS Hosts ‘Out of the Groundbreaking’ Ceremony for Purolite Corporation’s Manufacturing Facility

Providing Leveraged Design/Build Services throughout Montgomery County

King of Prussia, PA, May 20, 2021– PROTECS celebrates an important milestone for Purolite Corporation’s new pharmaceutical product manufacturing facility by welcoming ceremony guests to sign the first beam. This new facility will expand Purolite’s manufacturing capabilities from Romania and the United Kingdom to the United States.

The 74,000-square-foot manufacturing facility will be connected to the existing 21,800-square-foot PROTECS Innovation Center III located at 3700 Horizon Drive, King of Prussia, PA. Purolite’s new facility showcases how PROTECS continually supports the research and development operations of innovative companies in life sciences and high-tech industries throughout Montgomery County and even globally.  

“PROTECS is proud to assist in fulfilling the increasing global demand for Purolite’s pharmaceutical and life sciences products by being the design/builder of choice for two new cleanrooms to manufacture active pharmaceutical ingredients and excipients and an agarose manufacturing facility, said Christopher DiPaolo, President and Founder of PROTECS. “We look forward to continually providing our unique and collaborative project delivery approach to Montgomery County and build upon existing relationships with clients who share our core values of integrity, passion, safety, innovation and teamwork.”

Since 2005, PROTECS has provided clients, like Purolite, with a broad range of leveraged services in a collaborative construction management and design/build approach by collaborating with best-in-class architecture/engineering firms from project inception to occupancy.

“We are grateful to be working with PROTECS on our new manufacturing plant, said Jacob Brodie, Global Vice President, President – Americas Division of Purolite. “Because of their deep knowledge and experience building cleanrooms and labs for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries, we are confident that our new facility will be state-of-the-art.”

In addition to 3700 Horizon Drive, PROTECS has three other Innovation Centers: one in Blue Bell and two in Plymouth Meeting totaling 190,000 square feet and containing 18 technology and life sciences companies.

About Purolite Corporation

Purolite Corporation is a leading manufacturer of life science products, ion exchange, catalyst, adsorbent and specialty resins for water and non-water applications. Headquartered in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania with 40 sales offices in more than 30 countries, the company has ISO 9001 certified manufacturing facilities in the USA, United Kingdom, China and Romania. It operates dedicated R&D centers in the USA, China, Romania, Russia and the UK. Please visit www.purolite.com for more information.

About PROTECS

PROTECS is a leading, innovative full-service project and construction management company focused on serving the hi-tech regulated market sectors. For more than 15 years, PROTECS has provided its clients a broad range of leveraged services in a collaborative construction management and design/build approach by collaborating with best-in-class architecture/engineering firms from project inception to occupancy.

Through PROTECS’ patented Target Costing® delivery methodology, the company acts as a single point of contact and accountability for master planning, site selection, design, construction, commissioning and validation. As part of this delivery approach, PROTECS takes on the risk to guarantee performance, conformance, compliance and cost to ensure all its clients’ strategic objectives and goals are met. For more information, please visit our website at www.protecsinc.com.

Tags: Design- Build, life sciences, Montgomery County, PROTECS Innovation Center