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cjgaddy

05/10/17 7:31 PM

#296735 RE: asmarterwookie #296733

I got TWO Mobius’ from CEO Steve King/3-13-17. The fact that he added, “within the next few months”, tells me TWO is the number. Of course, Two=Multiple. I do ack I could be wrong.

3-13-17 CC, CEO Steve King: “...An important component of our Avid growth strategy is capacity expansion within our Myford facility. We are currently on track to install two 2,000L bioreactors [Mobius 2000L single-use] in the facility within the next few months, with a book of business for the reactors already in place. We believe the total capacity potential of the facility, when operating in campaign mode, can exceed more than $75mm annually, bringing us to well over $100mm in total potential revenue between our 2 mfg. facilities, providing us with adequate capacity to continue Avid revenue growth through FY’18. As we look beyond this FY and into the future, based on current operations & projected demand from our clients, we have also recently secured addl. space adjacent to our Myford facility, which we already have the use for as part of our growing operations. And additionally, would also allow us to further expand mfg. capacity based on committed business. While we will only begin converting space into mfg. capacity once client commitments and other necessary financing is in place, this puts us in an excellent position for continuing to grow the business beyond the coming FY.” http://tinyurl.com/grhwjvy

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5-3-17 BioPharma-Reporter: “Latest Avid investment to turn bioreactor capacity up to 11,000L”
Avid Bioservices will add multiple MilliporeSigma 2,000L bioreactors at its Californian single-use production plant in an effort to its increase annual revenue to over $100m.
The Myford facility [Avid II] came online in Dec.2015, but continued demand for clinical & commercial biomanufacturing has led to a capacity upgrade.
While an Avid spokesperson told Biopharma-Reporter the firm has experience with a “wide number of different single-use systems across multiple vendors,” this is the CMO’s first foray into the 2,000L scale...
The investment will “bring total capacity within the Myford facility to over 9,000L of capacity at the 1,000 & 2,000L scale and the total capacity at our 2 facilities to over 11,000L,” we were told.
Avid’s other facility is the Franklin plant, also located in Tustin, CA.
“With the installation of the new bioreactors at Myford, we expect that facility, when operating in campaign mode, can exceed more than $75m annually. This would bring our total potential annual revenue across both of manufacturing facilities to well over $100m.”
http://www.biopharma-reporter.com/Upstream-Processing/Avid-selects-MilliporeSigma-2-000L-single-use-bioreactors-at-CA-plant
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cheynew

05/10/17 7:32 PM

#296736 RE: asmarterwookie #296733

I would think multiple would be 3 or more.