Article: San Francisco-Based Biotechnology Firm Opens Vacaville, Calif., Plant.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 21--Genentech Inc. formally unveils its $250 million manufacturing plant in Vacaville on Friday, the latest player in what Solano County hopes will be a growing life sciences industry along the Interstate 80 corridor.

Vacaville, about an hour from the East Bay, is trying to make a name for itself as a business-friendly city eager to attract science and computer companies.

Biosource Technologies, which is developing cancer treatments, opened its headquarters in Vacaville in the late 1980s. Pharmaceutical company Alza Corp. of Palo Alto then opened a production plant, followed by Chiron Corp. of ...

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