TOLMAR, a Fort Collins-based pharmaceutical research, development and manufacturing company, was recently named Colorado BioScience Association’s Company of the Year for 2012 — just a few months after the company announced an expansion to Windsor. We caught up with TOLMAR CEO Mike Duncan to find out more about what’s going on.


Question: Tell us about your plans for the new facility in Windsor. How many new jobs do you expect it will create, and what will be happening there?

A: Right now we’re just under 400 people here in Fort Collins, and that’s at the seven facilities we have here now, and this one will be our eighth. We really don’t know how many jobs we will create yet because we’ll have several people moving down there, but you know I would guess by 2014 it will be between 50 and 75 at least.

TOLMAR develops drugs and makes drugs. We don’t sell them. So the place in Windsor will be a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant. And what TOLMAR also does, which is very different than most pharmaceutical companies, most of the medicines we make are for topical disease or for cancer. Two very different spectrums of disease. We