Singote CEO Alisa Wright stands in front of the new Varnx Pharmasystems SA25 robotic work-cell which is self-contained, sterile environment in which robots fill vials, cartridges and syringes with medicine. Staff photo by Kurt Christian
Singota Solutions’ introduction of a groundbreaking aseptic filling machine is a return to the company’s earlier goals and a marker for the local life sciences industry.
The machine is a self-contained, sterile environment in which robotics fill vials, cartridges and syringes with pharmaceutical liquids created by small startups all the way up to large companies such as Eli Lilly. It is the first of its kind in North America, according to Singota CEO Alisa Wright.
This new Vanrx Pharmasystems SA25 robotic work-cell is coupled with a nearly 5,000-square-foot expansion that’s brought new services and jobs to the company formerly known as BioConvergence.
For its 10th anniversary in 2016, the company re-branded itself as Singota Solutions. The change came during a time of statewide growth in bioscience businesses, according to a report by TEConomy/BIO. The industry employed more than 58,000 in 2014 across 1,727 businesses. The Bloomington metropolitan statistical area — including Monroe, Owen and Greene counties — had the fourth highest number of workers in the drugs and pharmaceutical industry when compared with similar areas across the nation.
Founded in 2006, Singota stands to make expansions because of the growth seen in the south-central Indiana life sciences industry.
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