Charles River to re-open Shrewsbury lab
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Charles River Laboratories announced it will reopen a lab in Shrewsbury that was shuttered in 2010. The South Street facility is slated to resume operations in the first quarter of 2016. A Charles River lab worker is shown in this company image.
Charles River Laboratories will re-open a Shrewsbury lab that has been shuttered since 2010 with a mixture of new and transplanted jobs.
The research services company has announced that the South Street facility will re-open in the first quarter of 2016. The lab was closed in 2010, but a resurgence in pre-clinical services has prompted the company to bring the facility back on line with 40 study rooms, Susan Hardy, corporate vice president investor relations, said.
“It’s located near Boston and Cambridge, which is the largest biohub in the world, so we were definitely hoping to re-open,” she said.
The international company, with more than 8,000 employees, is headquartered in Wilmington. The Shrewsbury site, to be called Charles River Labs Massachusetts, will host an undisclosed number of employees.
“It will be a mixture of new and existing. We will move some business to Massachusetts and we will also be hiring,” Hardy said, explaining that the jobs will run the gamut as they include every position required to run a lab.
The laboratory will focus on non-GLP (good laboratory practices) services and bioanalysis. Since the facilities are already in place, the cost to the company is “not a significant investment” although Hardy declined to detail the cost.
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