Clinical research company Thermo Fisher Scientific held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the opening of its new facility in Mebane on Thursday.
Production will begin within the next few weeks at the 375,000-square-foot facility, which will focus mainly on manufacturing precision pipette tips for use in labs around the world. Thermo Fisher expects to produce 40 million pipette tips every week at the new facility.
The ceremony featured speeches by Governor Josh Stein, Mebane mayor Ed Hooks, Thermo Fisher chief communications officer Sandy Pound, and the company’s president of laboratory chemicals and plastics essentials Erica Hirsch, as well as a video message from Sen. Thom Tillis…