Quintiles to expand Scotland lab capacity
Quintiles Transnational plans to build a new office near Edinburgh that will be the Scotland home for its Product Development business, including Quintiles Laboratories, and its NovaQuest group.
Quintiles Transnational plans to build a new office near Edinburgh that will be the Scotland home for its Product Development business, including Quintiles Laboratories, and its NovaQuest group.
Quintiles Transnational Corp offers services in drug development, financial partnering and commercialisation for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and healthcare industries and has some 18,000 employees and offices in more than 50 countries.
The new 112,000 ft2 facility to be built in Livingston, West Lothian, near Quintiles' present laboratory, will provide new space for the laboratory business. Quintiles' Product Development and NovaQuest personnel that occupy the Bathgate office will also move into the new building.
"Our lab business is expanding globally and in Europe because of our proximity to clinical trial sites and our tight quality control," said Thomas Wollman, senior vice-president, Global Central Laboratories. "This new facility will enhance our level of customer service in the UK and Europe, just as our new central lab in Mumbai has improved service in India. We will continue to look for opportunities to strengthen our global central lab network."
The new structure will be built on the Alba Campus business park in Livingston, about 15 miles from Edinburgh city centre. Quintiles will sign a 15-year lease for the facility. and is receiving a $2.4m Regional Selective Assistance Grant from the Scottish Executive to help offset some of the company's $13m investment in the new building. Under terms of the grant agreement, Quintiles has agreed to add 150 jobs over the next four years.