JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.com) has been awarded a lumpsum contract from Denka Seiken Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Denka Co., Ltd., for the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) of an influenza vaccination materials manufacturing plant and related facilities planned for construction in Gosen City in Niigata Prefecture.
The project involves the construction of a new influenza vaccination materials manufacturing facility with delivery in the latter half of 2020, on land occupied by the Niigata plant of Denka Seiken, located in Gosen City in Niigata Prefecture. As well as substantially increasing the plant’s vaccine output, the new development will bring about speedier and more stable delivery of products as well as heightening compliance with relevant drug production standards.
In addition to its performance in the construction of Denka Seiken’s existing Niigata plant, the client’s high evaluation of JGC’s involvement in the automation of the transportation and quality control of raw materials, together with its numerous contributions to cost effective operation are seen as being the contributing factors to the awarding of the contract for the construction of the new facilities.