GE Healthcare opens USD 7.4 million APAC Fast Trak Bioprocessing Technology and Training Center in South Korea
Center will support South Korea’s rapidly expanding biopharmaceutical industry, helping manufacturers increase production efficiency and speed to market.
GE Healthcare’s Life Sciences business, a global provider of technologies and expertise to the biopharmaceutical and life sciences industries, announced today the opening of a GE Fast Trak Center in Songdo, Incheon Metropolitan City, South Korea. The new USD 7.4 million Center will support the growth of South Korea’s rapidly expanding biopharmaceutical industry by providing hands-on practical training, technology evaluation, manufacturing support, and consultancy services in the latest strategies and technologies for upstream and downstream bioprocessing.
Demand for GE’s newest Fast Trak Center is expected to be high. During the past five years the domestic production of biopharmaceuticals in South Korea has grown 9%, and exports grew almost 34 percent between 2014 and 2015, from USD 589 million to USD 809 million[1]. Songdo is already home t

