{"id":3302,"date":"2010-11-29T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3302"},"modified":"2010-11-29T10:34:09","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T15:34:09","slug":"morning-read-i-north-country-biotech-expands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/11\/29\/morning-read-i-north-country-biotech-expands\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read I: North Country biotech expands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The In Box has been <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/11\/06\/negligence-threatens-north-country-biomedical-industry\/\">stumping for the idea<\/a> of a more logical, coherent approach to developing our bio-tech\/bio-medical sector.<\/p>\n<p>Today comes welcome news that the industry &#8212; already our top private sector employer in the North Country &#8212; is expanding yet again.\u00a0 This from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20101129\/NEWS05\/311299971\">Watertown Daily Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pristine Pharma Corp. expects to open its production facility in the  former Michele Audio complex on County Route 42 [in Massena].<\/p>\n<p>The Prospect Park,  N.J.-based company will produce cough syrup, pain reliever and other  liquid medicines under store brand names and its own label, NuMed. The  plant may employ up to 100 workers, according to Pristine CEO Venkat E.  Kakani.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 30 percent of those jobs would be for  chemists, pharmacists and skilled engineers, Mr. Kakani said. The rest  of the jobs would be in assembly, packaging, warehousing and  distribution.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would like to move there and set up operations and provide employment for the local community,&#8221; Mr. Kakani said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These are the high-skilled, next-generation jobs that the North Country struggles to attract.\u00a0 Clearly we have some assets that are working for these companies.<\/p>\n<p>It would be great to identify, improve and market those advantages.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20101129\/NEWS05\/311299971\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The In Box has been stumping for the idea of a more logical, coherent approach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}