DHL opens life sciences facility at Dublin Airport

Global logistics provider, DHL Supply Chain, has announced the opening of a pharmaceutical grade facility located at Horizon Logistics Park near Dublin Airport.

The new site is fully approved by the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) and will offer pharma companies, manufacturing in Ireland, a facility that is compliant with temperature controlled end-to-end supply chain management. Additionally, the company reports that plans are in place to extend the service across the temperature regimes and to provide value-added repack and postponement services.

“We are very excited to open this site in Dublin dedicated to the life sciences sector in Ireland,” said Ciaran Foley, MD of Ireland DHL Supply Chain. “DHL has already established an excellent life sciences customer base and reputation in Ireland through its air, ocean, road and express divisions and this new site gives customers access to a completely integrated global logistics solution. Our investment in Horizon also gives us the opportunity to provide supply chain services which are fully compliant and managed within strict regulatory controls from start to finish. This is the cornerstone of DHL’s offering.”

The new facility offers 3,700 square metres of warehousing space and is separated into different temperature regimes — ambient (15–25 degrees), chill (2–8 degrees) and a blast & holding freezer, which is capable of temperatures of –20 degrees. Furthermore, it is anticipated that this facility will create up to 50 jobs in the coming months.