Archive · 8 Oct 2026
Jubilant Pharmova to Double RUBY-FILL Production in Quebec
Jubilant Pharmova plans to spend CAD 94.5 million to upgrade and expand its radiopharmaceutical factory in Kirkland, Quebec.
The Canadian government will contribute CAD 23.8 million.
The work is intended to let the factory make twice as much of a product called RUBY-FILL.
RUBY-FILL helps hospitals make a radioactive material used in heart scans.
The company says more customers have been buying it, and its customer base doubled in three years.
The project will also increase capacity for other products in the company’s radiopharmaceutical pipeline.
Jubilant says the expansion will help meet demand and support jobs and supply of these medicines.
Jubilant Pharmova’s radiopharma business plans to invest CAD 94.5 million to modernise and expand its Kirkland facility.
The Government of Canada will provide CAD 23.8 million through the Strategic Response Fund’s innovation funding stream.
The project is expected to double manufacturing capacity for RUBY-FILL, which is used to produce Rubidium-82 for cardiac PET imaging.
Jubilant said its RUBY-FILL customer base doubled over the past three years and demand remains strong.
The Kirkland site is the only facility in Canada producing the product categories described by the company.
- Who
- Jubilant DraxImage Inc., part of Jubilant Pharmova’s radiopharma business, announced the investment; the Government of Canada will provide funding.
- What
- A CAD 94.5 million project to modernise and expand the Kirkland facility and double RUBY-FILL production capacity.
- When
- The announcement was made on Thursday, October 8; the article does not specify a year.
- Where
- Kirkland, Quebec, Canada.
- Why
- The company says demand for RUBY-FILL is strong and the expansion will help meet increased demand and expand production capacity.
- Planned investment
- CAD 94.5 million
- Federal support
- CAD 23.8 million through the Strategic Response Fund’s innovation funding stream
- Facility
- Jubilant Radiopharma’s facility in Kirkland, Quebec
- Production goal
- Double RUBY-FILL manufacturing capacity
- Customer growth
- The RUBY-FILL customer base doubled over the previous three years, according to the company
- RUBY-FILL use
- Enables on-site production of Rubidium-82 for cardiac PET imaging
- Canadian production
- The Kirkland facility is the only site in Canada producing the product categories described in the article