(Adnkronos) - Con un investimento superiore agli 80 milioni di euro, Gruppo Bracco ha realizzato Hexagon, il secondo stabilimento dell’azienda leader nell’imaging diagnostico di Plan les Ouates, a Ginevra. Il building, che sorge a pochi passi dalla storica fabbrica del 1997, fornirà tutto il mondo dell’innovativo agente di contrasto a ultrasuoni basato su microbolle che permette diagnosi in tempo reale - di cui Bracco è leader globale - e, volta a pieno regime, triplicherà la produzione e la distribuzione di uno dei prodotti di punta della ricerca Bracco.
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00:00In response to the high international demand for their drugs, the BRACCO group, a leader
00:09in the diagnostic imaging, always in the forefront of scientific progress thanks to its vocation
00:13for innovation, has built a second plant in Geneva, located a few steps from the historic
00:18factory of 1997, and inaugurated on November 6.
00:22Once at full capacity, Hexagon, this is the name of the four-story building with a
00:27vineyard and built with the criteria of maximum sustainability, it will triple the production
00:32and distribution of one of the leading products of the BRACCO research, the innovative
00:37ultrasonic contrast agent based on micro bubbles.
00:40It was necessary to design, study and develop a means of contrast for echography, and then
00:48we did it by taking contact with the Battelle Institute, still in Geneva, where there was
00:56a group of very open researchers who made themselves available to develop this concept,
01:08and we did it, we developed this category of echo contrasts, which are these bubbles.
01:18Today used for diagnostic in real time, the contrast agent based on micro bubbles,
01:23which BRACCO is a world leader, will soon find new fields of application.
01:27At this site we have a very important commitment on the technology of micro bubbles, BRACCO
01:35is a world leader, not only with the products that are currently approved and used, but
01:45above all as regards the effort of innovation with the third generation of products that
01:52are now in clinical phase, and above all with the application of micro bubbles in areas
01:59always related to medicine, but not only to diagnostics.
02:04At the cutting of the inaugural ribbon, the Swiss ambassador was also present in Italy.
02:08BRACCO now has a relationship with Switzerland for 40 years and we are very, very, very proud of it.
02:13It is a beautiful thing, also the fact that reality, BRACCO, who believe in us, in our
02:18country, who come here, who also take advantage of this place that is Geneva, where there is
02:24the highly qualified workforce, there is stability, etc., a great honor, and he is underlining
02:30the importance of the bilateral relationship Italy-Switzerland.
02:34A strong applause for the commitment of BRACCO in innovation in the medical and scientific field
02:39has also arrived from the Italian ambassador in Switzerland.
02:42A facility of this size, an investment of 80 million francs, the creation of tens,
02:50hundreds of jobs to export in the whole world products of the avant-garde contrast,
02:55are an extraordinary contribution for the promotion of health and for the improvement
03:00of patient care.