- June 19, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
PITTSFIELD — Berkshire County Arc has 80 people with developmental disabilities working at 55 locations in Berkshire County, but the human services organization’s newest client is one of the Berkshires’ most high-tech firms.
BCArc recently formed a partnership with Berkshire Sterile Manufacturing in Lee, a biotech company that uses cutting-edge technology to produce injectable medicines for clinical trials, including medications to treat the coronavirus. In May, Berkshire Sterile hired three employees from BCArc to serve as the cleaners for the company’s new facility.
Maintaining Berkshire Sterile’s clean-room facilities, currently being doubled in size as part of a $20 million expansion, is not included in the new employees’ job tasks.
“Our clean rooms have to be cleaned in a very deliberate way, so, that cleaning has to happen at prescribed times,” said Tyler Rush, Berkshire Sterile’s vice president of…
