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AMEC Industrial & Infrastructure mechanical and electrical consultants
A massive 350,000-s.f. expansion to a pharmaceutical plant on the outskirts of Toronto required carefully calibrating the environmental systems and providing plenty of redundancy.
The most recent expansion of Apotex's facility in Etobicoke, west Toronto, broke ground not only literally, but figuratively as well. Apotex. was founded in 1974, and is the largest Canadianowned pharmaceutical company. Its Etobicoke plant on a site bounded by highways 427 and 407 is for manufacturing oral solid dosages.
AMEC acted as Apotex's design consultant to provide electrical controls and mechanical engineering, construction management assistance, start-up and commissioning for the 350,000 sq. ft. expansion.
Apotex decided to act as both customer and constructor. This move shortened the time from design to start up and allowed Apotex to...