In the cleanest of clean rooms in the center of Simtra’s Bloomington manufacturing facility, high-tech machines fill syringes with medications to treat chronic conditions such as diabetes and life-threatening illnesses such as cancer.
Positive pressure in the room helps keep out contaminants. Workers can enter only after they take off their street clothes, put on hospital-like scrubs and follow strict head-to-toe sterilization protocols. Even the sequence of putting on their clothes is prescribed.
Site Director Patrick J. Adams said on a recent facility tour that the meticulous attention to detail sharply reduces the number of syringes and vials that are discarded. The slightest contamination in a syringe’s contents can render the medication useless.
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Simtra’s Bloomington operation includes the 600,000 square-foot manufacturing site at 927 S. Curry Pike, two warehouses on Curry Pike and a 120,000-square-foot inspection/packaging/labeling facility on Daniels Way, just south of the Cook Medical headquarters.
Some of the lines in Simtra’s Bloomington facility involve floor-to-ceiling glass-and-metal boxes with openings for long gloves into which workers stick their arms to manipulate machinery.
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