Eastman Kodak Bio-Products Development Center

Fluor provided design and construction management services for the 66,000-square-foot Bio-Products Development Center of Eastman Kodak's Life Sciences Division. The building is the headquarters and process development facility for the division and produces a variety of products used in the pharmaceutical, diagnostic chemical, and nutrition markets.

Client's Challenge

The highly automated facility accommodates a wide latitude of operations for recombinant and nonrecombinant organisms in a small-scale and large-scale batch and fed-batch fermentations.

The facility was designed to be readily upgraded to process products under the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Current Good Manufacturing Practices.

Fluor's Solution

The Development Center is Fluor's first design/build project for Kodak in Rochester. Product recovery capabilities include centrifugation, membrane separations, precipitation and other state-of-the-art methods.

The plant also contains fundamental purification processes such as ion exchange and crystallization, evaporation, and centrifuging, as well as a laboratory for the development of purification processes at small scales.

Conclusion

The open-shop design/build project was completed in 21 months. Kodak has since awarded Fluor additional engineering and construction contracts for the facility, including a maintenance contract for the Bio-Products Development Center.