Success stories from the life science industry
Scale-up for medical device contract manufacturing in Cardiff Following the unprecedented success of its medical device contract manufacturing business, EKF Diagnostics has expanded its Cardiffbased facilities twice within six months. In early 2021, EKF opened new, larger manufacturing facilities at Llandough Trading Estate to increase production of PrimeStore® MTM viral transport media, a key component for the COVID-19 testing regime. Just six months on from
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this opening, EKF has further developed its production area, warehousing and work force with the opening of two more adjacent units. The additional units, which include cleanroom facilities, triple EKF’s existing manufacturing area at Llandough to nearly 2000m2. This latest manufacturing area expansion, which can accommodate a further 100% increase in workforce, will now enable EKF to fill up to 100,000 PrimesStore MTM tubes daily. This will
ensure they can meet the ever-increasing UK and EU demand for this novel, patented sample collection device successfully evaluated for effective SARS-CoV-2 inactivation by Public Health England. An established device for safe and easy transportation of pathogenic samples, millions of PrimeStore MTM tubes have now been sold globally during the SARSCoV-2 pandemic, and EKF has continued to receive escalating numbers of orders from healthcare, education and industry for
