Company: RPID
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001380106-25-000058
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Company: RAPID MICRO BIOSYSTEMS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
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 feet of manufacturing floor space that houses multiple manufacturing spaces and functions, including assembly of Growth Direct systems, an International Organization for Standardization (ISO)-8 cleanroom with ISO-5 laminar flow hoods for consumable manufacturing, and dedicated areas for media preparation. The facility has robust quality control from materials receiving to product distribution. In addition to our primary manufacturing facility, we have a back-up manufacturing facility for consumables in Lexington, Massachusetts.

We believe that our manufacturing capacity is sufficient to meet our near-term growth targets for both systems and consumables. Our consumables manufacturing operation, in particular, is designed to meet the demands of high-volume media supply necessary to serve our market. It is centered around a state-of-the-art automated production line that we believe has enough capacity to support near and medium-term growth. To support continuous supply for our customers, we have manufacturing redundancies and maintain inventory in multiple locations, including our Lowell facility, a second redundant storage location in the metropolitan Boston area, and at our third-party logistics, or 3PL, warehouses in Schiphol, Netherlands and Frankfurt, Germany. 

Our manufacturing strategy includes direct manufacturing of certain products, and third-party outsourcing for certain components and subassemblies. We obtain components and subassemblies for our Growth Direct systems from multiple third-party suppliers and contract manufacturers. While some of these components are sourced from a single supplier, we have qualified second sources for most of our parts. We believe that having dual sources for our components helps reduce the risk of a production delay caused by a disruption in the supply of those components. We perform final assembly, commissioning, and inspection of the systems in our Lowell facility before shipping to customers. Our consumable plate assemblies and lids are manufactured to our specifications by manufacturing partners. We procure media from third-party suppliers and fill and assemble the final consumables in our Lowell facility. We currently contract with third party vendors to sterilize our consumables before shipping to customers.

We continue to invest in our manufacturing capabilities to enhance our current capabilities, to increase capacity ahead of future growth, to ensure continuity of supply, and to make order fulfillment consistent and convenient for our customers. Our future manufacturing plans may include expansion of our existing facilities, additional global sites, additional automation lines, and further manufacturing redundancy plans. We are continually evaluating our supply chain and may proactively optimize certain aspects of our manufacturing and supply chain footprint to meet our business objectives.

Intellectual property

Our success depends in part on our ability to obtain and maintain intellectual property protection for our products and technology,