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Starplex Scientific will open Tennessee plant

February 23, 2007 — Starplex Scientific, a Toronto-based pharmaceutical plastics company, will build a new 67,000-square-foot facility on a 12-acre site in the Cleveland/Bradley Industrial Park in Cleveland, Tennessee.

This project will create 25 new jobs in the first year of operation. Starplex is a leading supplier of premium-quality plastic disposables for clinical use and is a sister company of Apotex Inc., Canada’s largest Canadian-owned pharmaceutical company.

Starplex brand products are sold in Canada, the United States, and internationally to hospitals, laboratories, and other health-care facilities.

“Tennessee is pleased to welcome Starplex Scientific to Cleveland/Bradley County as they join more than 68 Canadian companies with satellite operations across our state,” said Matthew Kisber, Tennessee Economic and Community Development commissioner. “There was a great collaborative effort between state and local government as well as TVA to make this project happen.”

TVA assisted Cleveland Utilities, the Bradley/Cleveland Industrial Development Board, the Cleveland/Bradley Chamber of Commerce, the Southeast Industrial Development Association, and the State of Tennessee on the project.