Show ' The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday ' Confirmed from All ' ' s' 'i to supply their own media soon round that outsourcing ' was more efficient forced their researchers out of the media kitchen” Quilter said and that's where HyGone and other outsource businesses came in “We supplied sterile liquids waters reagents media But we had to deliver them in large volumes not in little bottles Twenty- - SO- - 1000-litcontainers Ten years ago HyGone was trying to figure out how to do that” The company began with bag suppliers but found that wouldn’t work because of their stringent requirements for a sterile product “We needed something a whole lot better than a food bag” Quilter said “So we learned to build our own At first it wasn’t a commercial product simply for internal It er market We were getting busi- use HyGone was following the same pattern with its bio- process containers as it had with fetal bovine serum Their customers asked to buy some and the product launched itself “Suddenly without a sales department w$ were selling a couple of mimon dollars of these things (We said) That could probably be a product if we tried” Quilter remembered with a chuckle The company created its own niche through vertical integration From just another product BPCs became a tod said Quilter crediting the company's former president Leland Foster withtheidea “We can say ‘We can do your serum your media waters deliver it’ the whole nine yards And that became a niche for HyGone something' that nobody else could do Our competitors don’t have all the parts (within their own companies) “We were capturing huge segments of foe industrial ness in two- - and chunks at a tune" Quilter related Thq bioprocess container part of the business became more efficient with two recent changes HyGone acquired FMI plastics manufacturer in March 2002 Previously under contract with HyGone FMI ' automated a process that made layered plastics for special purposes In November 2001 HyGone engaged Bioldnetics in a joint venture dubbed HyNetics “Biokinetics was a leading builder of stainless steel facilities They said ‘You build the disposable and we build foe stainless steel container’ Biokinetics sells the outer container HyGone sells foe plastic components — the joint venture is to set it up next to a biopharmaceutical firm” explained Quilter Since shipping foe huge quantities of sterile liquids required say 100000 liters of pure water or media to the drug manufacturer was impractical HyNetics delivered powdered media stainless steel tanks and disposable plastic linen to their doorstep “You have to take the media to the plant Send powder send bags put it together with the stainless steel tanks and ' pipe it right into foe plant” Quilter said He added that Foster had predicted the spread of such a delivery system from the United States to Europe And he said it has progressed even further afield to China “We’re trying to make their (the pharmaceutical plant's) back door our front door” he -- summed up As far as employment HyGone’s front door literally opens into the Cache Valley market OfPerbio’s 1266 employees worldwide approximately 400 work at its Logan facilities Housed in several buildings HyGone employs people in production sales and administration “Their wages run between 57 to $10 per hour to six fig ‘ ures” Quilter said “The last time we did an average with benefits it was somewhere in the neighborhood of $60000 a year” Even with benefits accounting for about a third of that amount that is a locally attractive salary “We're a relatively high- tech company so even in our production facilities in our clean room we have people with four-yedegrees “ he said Because of the company’s extreme requirements to keep their products sterile production employees must understand the delicate demands of their work "There could be $300000 worth of material sitting in one container Screwing that up is a really bad idea” Quilter said The original building on Highway 1 now holds serum filtration operations and foe HyNetics operation with its impressive 10 000-litstainless steel tanks “We also are in the last ar 89-9- er April 6 20d3 — A13 stages of finishing a $35 million upgrade to the powdered media facility” Quilter said Apparently powdering the chemicals doesn’t produce a homogeneous enough prod- uct so a different process palled micronization is needed It gives finer smaller particles that mix more evenly Quilter explained that improvements to the facility replaced ball-mi- ll grinders a process using ceramic stones to powder the chemicals with pin-mi- ll grinders With the plant improvements he said HyGone will soon be producing 20 million liters of powdered media instead of the 3 million liters possible earlier The newer building fronting on 1800 South now provides office space for administration and sales while another facility on 1000 West produces the disposable bags used in media preparation By the way in spite of its name said Quilter Hyclone does not do any cloning Cattle HOME REFINANCE LOAN snack food NOTTINGHAM Pa (AP) — If the cattle at the Herr family farm seem eager at the trough they have good reason No mundane meal of corn and hay here This feed is spiced with a snack smorgasbord: potato chips cheese curls and pretzels Blessed bovine elsewhere in Pennsylvania get even sweeter treats: chocolate balls and Frosted While cattle have been eating human food byproducts for years more farmers this winter are filling the trough with snack food goodies a g solution to high com prices caused by last summer’s drought Industry experts say that because feeding livestock discarded human food saves money and helps the environment Bessie will be munching on potato chips more often in the future “It’s a win-wsituation” said Harold Harpster a professor of animal science at Penn State University “It takes this food product out of the landr fills and puts it into use feeding these livestock” In Hawaii some cattle get foe leftovers from a pineapple processing plant Kansas cattle feast on sunflower seed hulls In Nebraska and California they eat sugar beet pulp In Pennsylvania cattle food is sometimes even more like people food The Hershey’s plant provides chocolate a Kellogg’s plant provides cereal and the Here’s snack food plant provides the chips The discarded foods are fine nutritionally farmers are quick to point out Potatoes are foe main ingredient for chips wheat for pretzels The reasons they're discarded vary: the chips are overcooked the cereal too old Often the cattle snacks are swept off the factory floor Jim Herr bought his cattle farm 18 years ago primarily as a place to discard snack food plant leftovers from his fami- ly’s business The thousands of gallons of water used to w§sh potatoes now hydrate the hay crop for instance The daily diet for his 650 cattle is heavily supplemented by the nearby snack food plant The cattle eat IS pounds of potato peelings 15 pounds of com eight pounds of hay and four pounds 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