Comar, a speciality packaging, device, and component supplier serving the, is building a custom facility in Rancho Cucamonga, CA. Comar will consolidate current employees, equipment, and operations from the existing Rancho Cucamonga and Garden Grove plants into this new facility.
The new 230,000 sqft facility will be ISO 13485 certified, cGMP compliant, and FDA registered and will house dedicated injection blow moulding, injection stretch blow moulding, and injection moulding cells.
26,000 sqft of the facility will have ISO Class 8 injection moulding and assembly cleanrooms with room for expansion.
The new facility will also feature a full-service mould prototyping lab, and dedicated mould sampling and development equipment to enable Comar to rapidly bring customers from ideation, to design, to prototype, to full production.
Comar has secured the new facility and submitted drawings and permit applications. The goal is to begin construction in the spring of 2020 and complete move-in and production startup of the new facility by the end of 2020.
The facility will support the manufacturing of complex finished medical devices and subassemblies incorporating injection moulding, blow moulding, high-speed assembly, testing, and finished device pack out.
Mike Ruggieri, CEO at Comar, said: "This transformational investment is an exciting milestone for our organisation. We have an opportunity to create a purpose-built facility that will enhance the employee experience."
"This new facility will provide best-in-class medical device production areas and significant additional capacity to grow with our customers across product lines and market segments. This is a necessary step to support our continued growth, and vision to be recognised as the premier plastic packaging, device, and component supplier, innovating solutions for customers, who lead the way to a healthier world," Ruggieri added.
