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| Dorado Site Overview
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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