Article: Biopol plans Post Falls plant: $30 million facility will open in 2009.

Byline: Becky Kramer

Jun. 21--A Spokane company that produces pollens, dust mites and other raw materials for allergy vaccines will break ground next week on a $30 million facility in Post Falls.

Biopol Laboratories' 68,000-square-foot building will replace five scattered office and lab sites in Spokane. Eventually, about 50 people will work in the new building, which is scheduled to open in 2009.

The company is owned by ALK-Abello Group, a Danish firm that describes itself as one of the world's largest producers of allergy vaccines. Pollens from ragweed, grasses and trees grown at Biopol's 640-acre farm in Plummer, Idaho, are used in vaccines ...

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