Local bio-tech manufacturer Millipore finishing $5 million expansion

Local bio-tech manufacturer Millipore finishing $5 million expansion

The biotech MilliporeSigma manufacturing site, near North Washington Avenue in Kankakee, has a 74-member workforce — which has grown from 62 at the end of 2014. It produces highly engineered ingredients and components used in blood- testing and drug formulations around the world. KANKAKEE — The 59,000-square-foot, red-brick facility is located four blocks north of West Court Street along North Washington Avenue.

It would be fair to say the vast majority of Kankakee County residents who travel along this stretch of Court Street have no idea the plant even exists, let alone know what type of high-tech manufacturing takes place […]

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