Quest Diagnostics broke ground Wednesday on the site of its new flagship laboratory in Clifton.
The 250,000-square-foot facility will be the largest in the Quest network of more than 20 labs across the country.
The lab is situated at the ON3 campus that houses the Seton Hall-Hackensack Meridian Graduate School of Medicine.
The new lab, which is expected to be operational in 2021, will employee more than 1,100 workers and provide enhanced diagnostic information services to more than 40 million people in New Jersey, six other states and the District of Columbia.
Steve Rusckowski, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Quest Diagnostics told NJBIZ that the new lab would be Quest’s major facility in the northeast. The Clifton site was chosen, because it is in close proximity to Quest’s lab in Teterboro and the company’s headquarters in Secaucus, said Rusckowski.
Rusckowski
“The area is appealing because of the access to talent in the surrounding area. A lot of Americans will be provided their laboratory services from this facility,” Rusckowski said.
“This lab will be building off of what we learned from our lab of the future in Massachusetts it would incorporate a lot of the innovations that we learned from that building in terms of design and its layout and automation technology. We are going to be bringing to this facility our latest thinking around that.”
Rusckowski said that the lab would have a comprehensive testing menu that will provide fast turn around time and tremendous capacity.
