SINA Medical Glass has signed a lease for an industrial site in St Helens, UK, where it plans to build a pharmaceutical glass manufacturing facility.
SINA Medical Glass has signed a 15-year lease on an industrial building to the rear of Glass Futures' Global Centre of Excellence.
The company will now convert the warehouse into a medical glass manufacturing centre.
On its website, SINA Medical Glass said first glass production is expected in 2025.
It plans to manufacture approximately 300 million medical glass vials and cartridges per annum.
This is sufficient to meet the UK’s domestic annual requirement, and with the excess to be exported to meet global demand.
UK law firm Wright Hassall worked on behalf of the company to agree the lease for the site, which is now owned by St Helens Borough Council.
Speaking at the Furnace Solutions Conference earlier this year, Councillor Anthony Burns, leader of St Helens Council, said the facility could create up to 300 jobs by 2030.
