Roche Diagnostics is investing 136 million euros in a research, development & production site in Penzberg, Germany. The fundswill be applied to construct a flexible building for Roche Diagnostics. The new construction will accomodate laboratories and production areas for the Roche Applied Science and Roche Professional Diagnostics businesses. The unit will be used by both the Development and Production sections. The site will be manufacturing products ranging from biotech constituents for immunodiagnostics and the life-science market through to complete immunodiagnostic test kits from 2010. Such test kits are used in diagnostic systems such as COBAS and Elecsys globally.