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Innovive Announces Expansion into South Dakota May 29, 2020 | North Sioux City, South Dakota Innovive LLC (www.innovive.com), a U.S.-based technology company, and a leader in disposable IVC rodent caging systems, is excited to announce that it will be expanding its manufacturing processes into North Sioux City, South Dakota, with their recent purchase of a 367,000 SF advanced manufacturing and distribution center. The building, one of five that comprised the former Gateway Computer Campus, was initially purchased by investor Gerard Keating in 2018 who repositioned the campus and turned it into one of the largest industrial properties in the State of South Dakota. The reasons that factored into purchasing the center were many, says company founder and CEO Dee Conger, but ultimately it was the ability to access a quality workforce with experience in automation in a production environment. “Over the course of the next two to three year, we will be looking to hire approximately 150 new employees,” says Conger. “And knowing that the area has experienced workers available, has been a big selling feature.”

Other factors that influenced the company’s decision to expand into South Dakota include: the building’s central location within the U.S.; the low cost of energy to run a manufacturing operation; and the overall favourable business climate for manufacturing operations the area offers. The opportunity to purchase a repurposed building also fit well into the company’s overall culture of sustainability and commitment to reducing the environmental impact of their products and operations.

About Innovive: Innovive was founded in 2004 with the goal of radically transforming the economics and convenience of working with laboratory animals. Using advanced design and manufacturing processes, Innovive creates reliable disposable rodent caging systems to provide research facilities with superior quality, performance, and cost savings. Our products are independently tested and validated to assure trouble-free operation, and our global manufacturing and distribution network provides advantageous pricing and rapid order fulfillment.

Innovive Moves East Coast Facility to Billerica, Massachusetts June 27, 2018 | San Diego, CA We are happy to announce that our East Coast facility will be operating from our new location in Billerica, Massachusetts. This newly renovated 68,000 sq. ft. building will serve as our East Coast headquarters going forward. The prime location along the Route 128 corridor will allow us to deliver and service the Boston and Cambridge regions quicker and more efficiently. This is an exciting expansion for us and we are looking forward to being in close proximity to Boston's emerging biotech market while continuing to providing the service you have come to expect from Innovive.

Innovive Grants Limited License for Allentown Disposable Caging April 17, 2018 | San Diego, CA Innovive, an innovator in disposable rodent caging, is pleased to announce that it has issued a limited non-exclusive license to Allentown, Inc. This license will allow Allentown to continue development of Allentown disposable caging products for use in their rear-ventilated racks. “We are pleased that Allentown has chosen to honor our significant intellectual property around disposable rodent caging systems, and secured this license. Disposable caging is the future of our industry, and we view this license as a strong endorsement of this fact,” said Dee Conger, CEO of Innovive.

Innovive invented, patented, and brought to market the world’s first commercial disposable rodent caging system. Since 2004, Innovive has been issued 31 U.S. and International patents, and is at the forefront of the industry standards for disposable caging. Innovive ships more than one million cages per month to more than 475 companies in 28 countries, enabling customers to focus on science and curing diseases instead of non-value added cage washing.

Innovive and Lou Ristic are Recognized for Excellence September 14, 2017 | San Diego, CA On Thursday night at the 2017 NEBAALAS Annual Award and Installation Meeting, Innovive and Northeastern Sales Representative Lou Ristic were presented with the "Robert Kydd Vendor Excellence Award for Dedication to The Field of Laboratory Animal Science and Technology." The award was presented by The New England Branch of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science and is the first ever awarded Vendor Excellence Award in their history. Upon receiving the award, Lou Ristic said, “It is with great pride that I accept this great achievement for myself and Innovive.”

Innovive Doubles Pre-Bedded Caging Throughput August 3, 2017 | San Diego, CA Innovive has put the final updates to a new state-of-the-art cage bedding system, located in our headquarter facility in San Diego, CA. This system, along with the addition of the soon-to-be-completed enhanced water bottle filling system, is part of a continuous effort to invest and focus on the premium quality of our optional services for our customers. “The new bedding filling system we’ve custom-built allows us to effectively double our throughput, and help meet the growing demand that we have for pre-bedded cages,” says Vice President of Engineering, Paul Jackson. “We’ve also added in multiple air filtration systems to evacuate airborne dust and contaminants to not only deliver a better product to our customers, but a cleaner, safer working environment for our staff.”

The bedding filling system now has two individual operating assembly lines, and each one can pre-bed approximately up to 3,000 Innocages® per hour. Each assembly line can also compile up to four separate stacks of 25 pre-bedded Innocages® simultaneously, before they are bagged and sent to be fully irradiated. Automated product packaging, as well as Innorichment™ insertion, are scheduled to be implemented later this year.

The construction of the streamlined water filling system is currently being fine-tuned and is expected to be completed by the end of November 2017.

Emmanuel Ferton Joins Innovive as Director of Manufacturing Operations July 7, 2017 | San Diego, CA Innovive, the leader in disposable IVC rodent caging, today announced that Emmanuel Ferton has joined the company as Director of Manufacturing Operations. Ferton will lead the company’s direction, strategy and execution for manufacturing operations of both new and existing products. He will also optimize demand planning, sourcing and purchasing to hold internal product line operations and external vendors to their production plan commitment. “I am very happy to join Innovive,” said Ferton. “I really value the technology disruption driven by Innovive and I will lead operations towards excellence in quality and in customer experience. Innovive promotes great working values and I am excited to be a part of this talented team.”

Ferton brings with him over 20 years in Supply Chain and Operations Management experience. Ferton has 11 years of experience as a Supply Chain Director at Soitec Solar Industries LLC., leading an international team covering supply planning, services procurement, logistics and transportation management, Customs, and Trade compliance. At Hewlett Packard in his native country France, Ferton held the position of Logistics Operations Manager for 6 years before being promoted to Supply Chain Development Program Manager where he managed the supply chain corporate programs as well as outsourcing and offshoring strategy.

“We are excited to have Emmanuel join our team,” said CEO Dee Conger. “He will play an integral role at Innovive, working together with our engineering and manufacturing departments as well as our vendors to ensure that our line of products are of the utmost highest quality. With his vast expertise, we are confident that he will help deliver the best premium experience of our products to our customers.”

Ferton will be based out of the headquarters of Innovive in San Diego, California.

Innovive Purchases New Corporate Headquarters in San Diego, CA December 17, 2015 | San Diego, CA Innovive, the leader in disposable IVC rodent caging serving the biomedical research market, has invested in a new corporate headquarters in San Diego, California. The 50,000 square foot facility contains expanded Manufacturing, Customer Service, Sales, Marketing, and Engineering departments. The site also houses an improved and streamlined distribution and warehouse operation for the Western U.S. and Asian markets as well as a Quality Control laboratory. Over the next six months, Innovive will make a significant investment in this new location including installation of its proprietary high-throughput water bottling and cage bedding operation which will be housed in an 8,000 square foot addition. Upgraded biosecurity measures will be implemented to ensure that these processes are undertaken in a completely clean environment. In addition, the new facility will also house a state-of-the-art vivarium to allow thorough internal validation of our products before they are released. "We’ve spared no expense in investing in our facility, equipment, and personnel to continue delivering high quality products that our consumers have come to expect from us," says Dee Conger, CEO of Innovive.

Pfizer’s Stephen Baker Joins Innovive August 25, 2015 | San Diego, CA Innovive, the leader in disposable IVC rodent caging, today announced that Stephen Baker has joined the company as Vice President of Business Development. Baker joins Innovive from Pfizer Inc where he served as a Senior Manager with the Global Standardization and Business Resources Team for Comparative Medicine. Previous to Pfizer, Baker was employed by Genzyme / Sanofi where he served as the Director of Operations for the Department of Comparative Medicine. Baker’s new role at Innovive will include supporting customers with best practices for implementing the Innovive Disposable Caging System, as well as helping users to develop the most efficient Standard Operating Procedures and protocols to maximize workflow. He will also partner with clients to ensure new products and services meet expectations, improve animal welfare and support research. “Innovive is the future of lab animal research – the portability of science,” said Baker. “I truly believe in the product, allowing users to be flexible, sustainable, operate outside-of-the-box and shift away from conventional vivariums. I am thrilled and excited to join Innovive’s team. In this world of constant change, I look forward to offering my knowledge of facility operations coupled with my strong background in facility design and renovation to help implement change in other institutions.”

Baker holds a Bachelor of Science from Boston College and a Masters of Science from Emmanuel College. He has his Project Management Professional (PMP) certification and Accelerating Implementation Methodology (AIM) certification. He is a certified manager of animal resources (CMAR) and a registered laboratory animal technologist (RLATG) through the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science (AALAS). Baker is also a graduate and faculty member of the Institute for Laboratory Animal Management (ILAM). Currently, Baker serves on the Board of Directors for the Laboratory Animal Management Association (LAMA) and is a co-chair for the Continuing Education & Training committee. In addition to his experiences and certifications in the field of laboratory animal science, he is a certified somatic leadership coach and enjoys growing the leaders of tomorrow.

“We’re thrilled to have Steve join our team. During his tenure at Pfizer he researched and vetted every facet of the Innovive Disposable Caging System to ensure it could achieve Pfizer’s high standards of operation,” said Innovive CEO, Dee L. Conger. “With his vast expertise in the industry and his deep knowledge of our products, we are confident he will be able to help animal research facilities of any size or type successfully implement our caging technology.”

Baker will be based out of the East Coast Corporate Office of Innovive in Hudson, New Hampshire.

Innovive Opens East Coast Corporate Office and Distribution Center in New Hampshire July 10, 2013 | Boston, MA Innovive, the leader in disposable IVC rodent caging serving the biomedical research market, has opened a new corporate office and distribution center in Hudson, New Hampshire. The 20,000 square foot facility, previously occupied by ThermoFisher Scientific, is located in close proximity to the Greater Boston Area, one of the largest biomedical research centers in the world. The new site will serve as the company's East Coast office for customer service, sales, and supply chain logistics. It will also house the distribution and warehouse operation for the Eastern U.S. and all of Europe. The company's product development efforts will continue to be based in their West Coast headquarters in San Diego, CA, which will also retain customer service, sales, and distribution staff to serve the Western U.S. and Asian markets. Innovive's COO, Jim Fallon, has relocated to New Hampshire to lead the new office. "Our strong, steady growth and expanding global customer footprint – especially during these uncertain times – are a testimony to our value proposition, our customer relationships and our dedicated staff," says Fallon. "All customers in the Greater Boston Area will benefit from the convenience of Innovive operating in the Eastern Time Zone, the security of local inventory in the new warehouse, and deliveries made by Innovive staff using the company's own fleet of trucks."

Innovive's Director of Customer Service Operations, Jessie Shea, has also relocated to the new location to provide dedicated support to East Coast customers. "We're excited to be focusing our efforts and resources on the Eastern region," says Dee Conger, CEO of Innovive. "Our success has been built not only on bringing new technology to the industry, but also on the closeness of our customer relationships. The added ability for us to provide local, on-demand deliveries and services throughout the East Coast will help to solidify our presence in the region and allow us to better serve our substantial and rapidly growing client base."

Innovive Announces New Hampshire Corporate Office

Innovive Strengthens Nationwide Recycling Program with New Bay Area Recycling Facility May 30, 2013 | San Diego, CA Innovive, the leader in disposable IVC rodent caging, is pleased to announce the opening of a new cage recycling and processing facility in Newark, California. This expansion will strengthen Innovive’s award-winning, nationwide recycling program by increasing its current recycling capacity to an additional two million cages annually. The new facility will provide customized direct pickup services to research facilities across the San Francisco Bay Area. Over the next twelve months, Innovive will invest more than $500,000 in this new location for the installation of its proprietary separation and granulation equipment. Using this technology, Innovive is able to process dirty cages that are picked up from facilities so that customers do not have to dump or separate soiled bedding. The resulting PET flake is then cleaned and used by its vendor network to be repurposed in new products. This unique process is the industry’s only closed-loop recycling program.

“We are excited about the expansion of our recycling capabilities,” said COO Jim Fallon. “This new facility doubles our processing capacity and is a direct result of the continued growth of Innovive disposable caging and the demand for our recycling services. We are committed to providing sustainable services to our customers, allowing them to conveniently recycle and compost dirty caging while reducing their environmental impact.”

This new facility is part of Innovive's ongoing expansion plan, which will include the opening of a dedicated processing center in the northeast region in 2014.

Innovive Named Winner of the Waste Reduction Awards Program (WRAP) by the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery December 29, 2011 | San Diego, CA The California 2011 Waste Reduction Awards Program (WRAP) recognized Innovive for the company's commitment to recycling and waste reduction. WRAP, administered by the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, honors California businesses and non-profit organizations for significant achievements in landfill waste diversion.

The program recognized Innovive's contribution to sustainable business development. In the course of implementing the Material Consumption and Waste Reduction Program, the company redesigned the manufacturing process at the San Diego manufacturing facility. This process optimization resulted in a 50% cutback of used materials and produced waste.

Innovive also pioneered a closed-loop recycling service program, assuming full responsibility for its product at every stage of the production cycle. Used disposable caging is collected directly from customer sites and returned to Innovive's San Diego recycling facility for composting and recycling. Since December 2010, 56,800 lbs of plastic have been diverted from landfills and 91,200 lbs of soiled bedding have been composted at the local municipal facility.

About Innovive: Innovive was founded in 2004 with the goal of radically transforming the economics and convenience of working with laboratory animals. Using advanced computer-aided design and manufacturing processes, Innovive creates reliable disposable rodent caging systems to provide research facilities with superior quality, performance, and cost savings. Our products are independently tested and validated to assure trouble-free operation, and our global manufacturing and distribution network provides advantageous pricing and rapid order fulfillment.

Innovive Receives 2011 Recycler of the Year Award by San Diego 19th Waste Reduction and Recycling Program April 21, 2011 | San Diego, CA Each year, the City of San Diego's Environmental Services Department recognizes the waste reduction and diversion achievements of local businesses with its Waste Reduction and Recycling Awards Program. The awards recognize companies that have committed to reducing the amount of business-produced waste and ensuring that as much waste as possible is recycled or composted as an alternative to landfilling.

Innovive, a San Diego based manufacturer of racking systems and single use plastics to the biomedical research community, is delighted to be recognized with this award for their commitment to waste reduction. Innovive tackled this responsibility on two fronts; first by reducing the amount of packaging waste entering their business, and second by assuming responsibility for their products, post-consumer. The former was achieved by implementing a material consumption and waste reduction program at their manufacturing facility in San Diego. In 2010 they diverted 50% of their in-house waste by using municipal recycling services along with private 3rd party recyclers for material not accepted in the municipal stream. They also implemented a product and packaging design review that will cut the amount of material used in production by an estimated 60% in 2011. Additionally, Innovive encompassed producer responsibility by setting up a program where used products are collected from customers and returned to San Diego for environmentally friendly composting and recycling.

In 2009 Innovive invested in a 10,000sq ft recycling plant featuring a proprietary high capacity plastics separation and granulation line and a dedicated fleet of recycling vehicles. Their recycling line separates plastics from compostable materials and then processes plastics back into clean PET 1 flake. The compostable material is aggregated and sent to the Miramar Greenery compost facility located at the Miramar Landfill. Innovive provides a pick-up service for customers in California including Universities and Biotech Companies. This program diverted over 35,000 pounds of plastic flake and 22,000 pounds of compostable bedding from the landfill at Miramar annually.

"We take great pride in this award" said Jim Fallon, President and COO of Innovive. "It is exciting to be able to provide innovative solutions to our customers in the Bio-medical industry. Our customers are increasingly interested in dealing with vendors who provide creative, sustainable solutions for the full life cycle of a product. Our substantial investment in our own recycling infrastructure allows us to provide solution to customer's issues and allows us to extend our commitment to waste reduction."

Innovive Congratulates The Jackson Laboratory - Winner of The 2011 Turnkey Facility of the Year Award April 15, 2011 | San Diego, CA The 2011 Facility of the Year Award was bestowed on The Jackson Laboratory for their new Importation and Isolation facility, a three-story, 22,500-square-foot building, located on the Laboratory's Bar Harbor, Maine campus. The Facility of the Year Award recognizes outstanding achievements in the design/build of a new or renovated laboratory animal facility and is intended to showcase new ideas and accomplishments in facility design, construction and operation.

The Jackson Laboratory (JAX), a nonprofit biomedical research institution, is also the world's leading distributor of mouse models of human diseases. The new Importation facility is a new construction containment facility for receiving, housing and processing "imported" mice of unknown health status that are delivered from other institutions around the world. The building includes a 5,000-pen-capacity vivarium for housing mice. Other facilities housed in the building are an in vitro fertilization lab for harvesting and processing eggs, sperm and embryos; a cryogenic storage facility with 20 large LN2 tank freezers; a cryopreservation sample processing laboratory; and a BSL2cell culture laboratory for importing cell lines.

The vivarium was designed specifically for Innovive Disposable Caging. The entire project was completed without a supporting cage wash or sterilizing operation. At capacity the facility will house 5,000 cages of mice in Innovive disposable caging that will reside in dual ventilated IVC racks. The design also included an innovative bio-safety cabinet design by The Baker Company of Sanford, Maine. The BSC provides an ergonomic cage change process using disposable caging.

The facility was designed by lead architect RMW Architecture of Sacramento, Calif., and WBRC of Bangor, Maine, for engineering services associated with mechanical, electrical and plumbing design, and Woodard and Curran for site permitting, site design and civil work.

About The Jackson Laboratory: Founded in 1929, The Jackson Laboratory is an independent, nonprofit biomedical research institution based in Bar Harbor, Maine, with a facility in Sacramento, California. Its mission is to discover the genetic basis for preventing, treating and curing human diseases, and to enable research and education for the global biomedical community. The Jackson Laboratory's JAX(R) Mice & Services division supplies thousands of research mouse models and extensive research services to accelerate basic research and early stage drug discovery worldwide.

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Introducing New AIA Continuing Education Credit Course - "Implementing Disposable Caging in New and Existing Facilities" April 14, 2011 | San Diego, CA Innovive, the innovator and market leader in Disposable Rodent Caging, is proud to announce our American Institute of Architect's Continuing Education program. Our AIA Continuing Education Course qualifies for general education credits and will be of interest to all architects and lab planners that are engaged in animal laboratory facility projects in the US.

The course will provide an overview of designing for a disposable facility and will address the following:

Strategies for the most efficient facility layout, with a focus on storage space, caging density, one-way materials flow and improved bio-security.
An overview of health and safety considerations including immediate and long-term benefits that accrue from eliminating the washroom, as well as ergonomic reasons for using lighter weight disposable caging.
A detailed computational model that compares the total lifetime cost of a traditional animal facility to one designed and operated with disposable cages.
Environmental assessment of disposable caging, from manufacturing and customer use to disposal.

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