Pfizer Opens New 98,500-Sq-Ft Warehouse at Michigan Plant

Drug maker Pfizer held a ribbon cutting ceremony Tuesday to mark the opening of a new 98.500-sq-ft warehouse at the company’s largest pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Portage, MI.

“To see this kind of warehouse come together for this site is just tremendous. We’re going to fill this with product pretty soon, probably within the next month or so. We’ll [be] moving product out of the current warehouse into here and we’ve even left a little space for some more,” Bob Betzig, a site leader at Pfizer, told CBS News affiliate WWMT. 

Part of a $147 million expansion project at the site, the company invested $30 million in the new warehouse to enable the manufacturing plant to receive higher volumes of raw materials and increase its handling of finished products by 60%, according to a report by MLive. 

Pfizer’s new warehouse is capable of handling 9500 total pallets and 1800 shipments per year, MLive reported. The company is also in the process of building a 10,000-sq-ft aseptic processing site at the Portage plant.

The warehouse, which also features two cold storage areas, is expected to be fully operational by March.

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