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UCB Plans Swiss Biologics Facility

by Michael McCoy
January 10, 2011 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 89, Issue 2

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Credit: UCB
UCB is building a biotech drug pilot plant in Braine l’Alleud, Belgium.
Credit: UCB
UCB is building a biotech drug pilot plant in Braine l’Alleud, Belgium.

The Belgian drug company UCB will spend about $330 million to build a microbial manufacturing plant for Cimzia, a monoclonal antibody used to treat Crohn’s disease and rheumatoid arthritis. The company says the plant will open in 2015 at its site in Bulle, Switzerland. It will complement a planned pilot plant in Belgium and contract manufacturing agreements, including one with Lonza. Last month, UCB agreed to sell three pharmaceutical chemical plants in Europe to the contract manufacturer Aesica.

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