Thermo Fisher announces a carbon-neutral manufacturing facility in Wilmington, North Carolina, to grow the supply chain with 40M weekly production of pipette tips supporting the life sciences market.

Thermo Fisher Scientific has inaugurated a 375,000-square-foot carbon-neutral manufacturing facility in Mebane, North Carolina, to support more domestic supply chain management in the life sciences space. The plant, which is a center of excellence in the production of pipette tips, will produce at least 40 million pipette tips per week, making sure that the critical diagnostic and medicine production tools are available across the US.

The new location is crucial to improving supply chain management by lessening dependence on foreign sources. Its automation feature, which can produce and dispose of 96 pipette tips in 12 seconds, allows high efficiency and operations to be achieved with standards of high preciseness and quality.

Josh Stein, the Governor of North Carolina, hailed the move, noting how it would help the state in leading BioTech as well as in having a domestic supply chain resilience. The distribution center will generate 100 new jobs on top of the 7,800 jobs already provided by Thermo Fisher in the state.

The Mebane facility is also put forward by a federal contract of US$192.5m, which suggests the countrywide efforts of ensuring critical supply chain management in healthcare and biotechnology. Thermo Fisher, a business that invests in innovation and expansion, spends approximately US$1bn yearly on R&D.

The combination of sustainable actions and high levels of automation will make the facility more efficient and responsive and will establish Thermo Fisher as a top supplier of science products in terms of supply chain management.