A company that’s been operating in London since 1985 is celebrating the opening of its new building in the city’s southeast end.
Sciencetech’s new 13,000-square-foot facility will be located at the same site as the former offices at 1450 Global Dr., just south of Highway 401.
The facility will feature new dedicated testing labs, expanded manufacturing space, and a new shipping dock for larger products and projects, officials said.
“ScienceTech has been for a little while about 38 people. This expansion allows us to hire about 15 more over the next three years,” president Scott Hafekost told 980 CFPL.
“We’re hoping to get into more standardized manufacturing as well as take on larger projects, very big orders for weird custom solutions.”
London-Fanshawe MP Irene Mathyssen was on hand for the ribbon-cutting and to tour the building.
“It’s important, absolutely critical that our communities invest in the future and in the kind of science and technology that is developed right here in London, Ontario.”
The company builds custom and standard solutions in the field of optics and spectroscopy for use in medical research, biotechnology, space science, analytical chemistry, material research, pharmacology, applied physics, and aerospace.
“What we really do with that is we use light to analyse samples, measure samples, see what effect light has on researchers’ samples,” said Hafekost.
“A large part of our business is solar simulation which is an easy thing to understand of helping researchers with equipment they need to develop more efficient solar cells, solar panels, with hopes to eventually be more sufficient on green energy.”
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The building was made possible with support from the federal and provincial governments, as well as the city of London through the London Economic Development Corporation.
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