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WorkforceMinutiaeCenter Celebrates $1.3M Renovation Appointment-Plus Blackboard Library Search for Classes Student E-mail WebAdvisor Search: Admissions & Aid Programs & Courses Campus Life Giving AthleticsWell-nighHome News WorkforceMinutiaeCenter Celebrates $1.3M Renovation WorkforceMinutiaeCenter Celebrates $1.3M RenovationPublished: October 2, 2018 Bio-pharma execs and local leaders mark re-opening state-of-the-art facility. State officials, county educators, local government leaders and economic minutiae supporters joined executives from Novo Nordisk and Grifols Oct. 1 to gloat the reopening of the newly-remodeled Johnston County WorkforceMinutiaeCenter. The ribbon-cutting comes without at $1.3 million diamond revamp of the 30,000-sq.-ft. training facility, which opened in 2005 with a mission to support Johnston County’s growing bio-manufacturing industry. “Johnston County is a player in bio-pharma’s major leagues,” said Jeffrey Carver, chairman of the Johnston County Board of Commissioners. “Now that we’ve climbed to the top we have to work every bit as nonflexible to stay at the top, and that ways keeping resources like the WorkforceMinutiaeCenter aligned with the fast-changing needs of the industry’s leading companies.” Johnston County, Johnston County’s Office of EconomicMinutiaeand Johnston CommunityHigher(JCC) created the part-way in partnership with local bio-pharma firms. Today, Grifols and Novo Nordisk help fund the center’s operations through a special towage as part of a state-created Research and Training Zone (RTZ). “The megacosm of this state-of-the-art simulated drug manufacturing environment will enable the higher to better-train skilled employees for our bio-manufacturing industries,” said Dr. David Johnson, president of Johnston Community College, which operates the WorkforceMinutiaeCenter. “We remain so grateful to Grifols, Novo Nordisk, the RTZ and the Johnston County Office of EconomicMinutiaefor their support in making this transformation a reality. Together, we’re filling the talent pipeline and ensuring the long-range success of our bio-pharma industry and Johnston County’s broader economy.” Grifols, whose 1,600-worker campus in Clayton manufactures plasma-derived medications, is Johnston County’s largest private employer. Headquartered in Spain, the privately-held firm arrived here in 2011 with its vanquishment of Talecris Biotherapeutics. The site has since expanded several times in order to meet surging demand for Grifols’ therapeutic products, and the visitor recently purchased 467 acres in Johnston County to unbend future growth. “The WorkforceMinutiaeCenter will unshut job opportunities and new career paths to residents in Johnston County and beyond,” said Sergi Roura, Grifols president of North America Facilities. “The Grifols Clayton site is investing in new facilities to double its current capacity, so we will need to increase significantly our workforce over the next few years. ThePart-waywill be hair-trigger in providing talented, skilled and highly-trained individuals to fill these roles. It will moreover enable us to provide largest training opportunities to our current employees, permitting Grifols to train in a similar production environment without well-expressed our operations.” Renovations to the part-way began in late April with a “sheetrock breaking” that attracted well-nigh 100 participants. The work has transformed the part-way from its previous wonk layout to a diamond that replicates the bio-pharma workspaces its trainees will encounter when they go to work at Grifols or Novo Nordisk. The facility will offer hands-on lab training and simulation opportunities, for example, utilizing real-world bio-manufacturing environments. Few workplaces are increasingly wide than that of Denmark-based Novo Nordisk. The company’s presence in Clayton began in 1993 and now employs over 1,100 workers. In 2020, the visitor will unshut its $2 billion Diabetes Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients facility, subtracting 700 full-time jobs to the local economy. Across its quarter-century in Johnston County, Novo Nordisk has been a staunch supporter of workforce readiness. In fact, in 2003, the visitor donated to the county several acres of land to house the Johnston County WorkforceMinutiaeCenter. “With Novo Nordisk’s capabilities in Clayton expanding to variegated processes, a facility uplift like the WorkforceMinutiaeCenter training lab will enable us to recruit and onboard new talent much faster,” said Chad Henry, unstipulated manager for Novo Nordisk operations in Clayton. “Collaboration with industry, JCC and the county helps create relevant, regional solutions to potential talent and training gaps. We are so fortunate to have this facility in our yard to meet that word-for-word need.” Cut line: JCC biotech students like Tiffany Vasquez will now be worldly-wise to learn how to manufacture medicine in a simulated drug environment in the renovated WorkforceMinutiaeCenter. Did you enjoy this story? Share this vendible with your friends! 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