Eurofins Australia Network Investments
Eurofins ramps up its multi-million laboratory network upgrade in
Australia and New Zealand
Eurofins Scientific (EUFI.PA), the global leader in food and environment testing, announces the acceleration of its modernisation and expansion program to bring its laboratories across Australia and New Zealand to world-class standards, and provide its clients in the region the same standards and capabilities that have come to define Eurofins in other parts of the world. The ca. AUD 15m (ca. EUR 10m) investment programme, which commenced in January 2013 includes the extensive upgrade of 7,300m2 of laboratory surface in the Group's 7 laboratories and 12 agroscience sites in the region, the construction of a brand new 600m2 laboratory Christchurch, NZ, in addition to the new state-of-the-art quarantine facility in Toowoomba, QLD, announced in September.
The comprehensive upgrade of 3,600m2 laboratory surface in Sydney and Melbourne closely follows the completion of the 3,700m2 extensive rebuild of Eurofins' main site in Auckland, New Zealand earlier this year. The modernisation program will continue in 2015 with the construction of a brand new 600m2 site in Rolleston Christchurch, further underscoring the Group's commitment to the Food and Dairy segments in the South Island of New Zealand. The new facility is expected to be completed in April 2015.