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Thermo Fisher Scientific expands state-of-the-art R&D facility in Hyderabad

Published on : Friday 29-04-2022

The R&D team is led by exceptional colleagues including scientists and engineers across more than 100 locations.

Mumbai, April 28, 2022 – Thermo Fisher Scientific today celebrated the inauguration of its new R&D and Engineering facility – India Engineering Centre (IEC) – by the Hon Minister for Industries and Commerce, Government of Telangana Shri K T Rama Rao. The newly expanded India Engineering Centre (IEC) is part of Thermo Fisher's R&D Centre of Excellence in India and will bring an additional 140 new jobs to the region.

Thermo Fisher Scientific invests more than $1.4 billion annually in R&D. The R&D team is led by exceptional colleagues including scientists and engineers across more than 100 locations with a passion for innovative ideas and groundbreaking discoveries.

Thermo Fisher's IEC is a world-class research and development centre and will employ over 450 diversely talented engineers and vendor partners. The centre at Hyderabad is a 42,000 sq. ft facility that includes the engineering labs and will support new product development and product sustenance for laboratory and analytical solutions for Thermo Fisher's global sites. In addition, the facility will also attract top talent and open employment opportunities in the Telangana state. This facility will have the required infrastructure to design and develop instruments, perform product reliability performance testing and verification, as well as validation of products.

Speaking on the expansion of the facility, Amit Chopra, Managing Director, India and South Asia, Thermo Fisher Scientific, said, "The new infrastructure at Hyderabad is uniquely placed to drive technological advances and excellence in developing new products and solutions that strengthen our offering and leadership position in the research, industrial and clinical market. It is an extension of Thermo Fisher's philosophy that believes in leveraging our world-class infrastructure, scientific knowledge, expertise, and talent ecosystem to build intelligent solutions that have meaningful impact as we continue to work towards fulfilling our Mission, which is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer." 

"Our Thermo Fisher Scientific India Engineering Centre offers design expertise that enables growth of our business and delivers innovative products and technology to our customers.  The IEC supports multiple business, products and processes with an extremely talented team model that is both scalable and flexible based on the specific business need. This investment is a testimony of our commitment to the IEC, their technology platforms, innovations and people," said Michael Meguiar, Vice President, Operations, Laboratory Equipment, Thermo Fisher.