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The Dorado site was built in the 1970’s by McNeil and acquired by Biovail in 2001. Biovail has completed extensive capital improvements to the site valued at over $60M. The upgrades include many new utilities, manufacturing equipment and new finishes in the manufacturing suites. The 145,000 SF facility has manufactured more than 4 billion tablets and capsules per year and the site has an excellent compliance record.





Area
Square Foot
Total Main Building
142,246 SF
Packaging
20,719 SF
Manufacturing
28,358 SF
Pilot Plant
4,000 SF
Warehouse
24,444 SF
Offices
14,884 SF
Laboratories
5,439 SF
Cafeteria
3,467 SF
Mechanical Areas
14,846 SF
Maintenance Shop
4,342 SF
Support Areas
21,747 SF

Recent facility and equipment upgrades include:

Facility Upgrade Highlights
$
(million)
Year completed
New Chilled Water Plant (2 x 800 Ton chillers)
4.3
2007
Phone switchboard
0.4
2007
Lab renovations
1.4
2006
New redundant Electrical Substation and Emergency Generators (2 x 1500 KVA)
2.9
2005
New Steam Boiler Plant (2 x 220 Hp boilers)
1.2
2005
New Manufacturing area Air Handling Units
0.5
2005
Pilot Plant and (16,000 SF) 2200 pallet Warehouse
5.0
2003
Manufacturing room upgrades
1.3
2002
Lab expansion (4600 SF)
0.7
2002

Processing Equipment Highlights $
(million)
Year completed
Pilot Plant equipment
1.5
2003 to '08
Packaging equipment upgrades and change parts
1.9
2001 to '08
Tanks, mixers
0.7
2001 to '08
Niro MP 4/5 (pilot lab)
2.3
2008
Thomas 60" coater
1.4
2008
Printing International printer
1.0
2007
Kanebo TVIS
0.7
2007
Rebuilt IPR 51 station tablet press
0.7
2006
Klockner CP 1200 w/o cartoner
1.7
2005
Niro MP8
3.2
2004
Klockner CP 1200 c/w cartoner
2.9
2004
Bee International homogenizer
0.4
2004
Collette 600 L high shear granulator
0.3
2004
Niro MP 4/5 (production)
2.0
2003
MG2 G140 encapsulator
0.6
2002
2 x 400 Kg Tray Dryers
0.6
2001
Fette 2200
0.4
2001
Courtoy R190
0.4
2001

 

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