SUNNYVALE — A testing laboratory has opened a brand new Sunnyvale location that allows the corporate to function extra effectively and launch a giant hiring effort, the lab stated Tuesday.
Ascend Scientific believes its new Sunnyvale places of work might permit it to extend employment counts by at the very least 17% in that metropolis, in keeping with estimates offered to this information group.
“It is a very important growth for us,” stated Jeff Vizethann, an Ascend Scientific government vice chairman. “It is a nice location for us.”
Ascend Scientific has launched operations inside a constructing of roughly 100,000 sq. toes, in keeping with Vizethann. The brand new firm places of work, lab and warehouse are at 435 Oakmead Parkway in Sunnyvale.
“For our new laboratory, we invested in the absolute best applied sciences, together with superior robotics and automation, making our core enterprise extra environment friendly whereas offering us new instruments to broaden our testing into new markets,” stated Paul Beyer, chief government officer with Ascend.
The Sunnyvale location additionally serves as Ascend Scientific’s new headquarters, the corporate stated.
“We're in a hiring mode,” Vizethann stated. “We now have loads of potential for extra development, each for staffing and clients.”
An estimated 250 to 300 individuals are working at current within the new Sunnyvale location. The corporate might accommodate as much as 350 staff at that web site, Vizethann stated.
That would characterize a workforce improve of at the very least 16.7%, and of as a lot as 40%, on the Sunnyvale web site.
“We had been bursting on the seams in our previous Redwood Metropolis location,” Vizethann stated.
The corporate’s main enterprise is to offer clinics with testing providers for kidney illness.
“We're on the lookout for individuals to work within the labs in addition to individuals in gross sales and subject service who might work all through the nation,” Vizethann stated.
The brand new Sunnyvale workplace is a much more environment friendly complicated than the corporate’s prior operations in Redwood Metropolis, the place Ascend Scientific occupied two websites, in keeping with firm executives.
“We had the places of work and the lab in a single constructing and the warehouse down the road,” Vizethann stated.
As an alternative of being obliged to drive from one constructing to a different, workers are all on one ground and in a single constructing.
“If an worker has to select up a reagent, as an alternative of driving to the warehouse, they will simply order a robotic to select it up from a cooler,” Vizethann stated.
Apart from the principle Sunnyvale complicated, Ascend additionally has two places in Colorado. Along with the headquarters and laboratories, the Sunnyvale web site additionally homes logistics and provide chain operations. The Colorado places of work include software program improvement and consumer relations.
“For our new laboratory, we invested in the absolute best applied sciences, together with superior robotics and automation, making our core enterprise extra environment friendly whereas offering us new instruments to broaden our testing into new markets,” Beyer stated.
in 1999, Vizethann grew to become the corporate’s worker No. 1 as the primary individual employed by the corporate’s board of administrators. The corporate formally started operations in 2000.
“It’s been nice to see the corporate develop like this over time,” Vizethann stated.