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Merck ups Spanish drug capacity 50%

by Alex Scott
October 24, 2016 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 94, Issue 42

Merck KGaA has increased its biotech drug production capacity in Spain by 50% by expanding its facility in Tres Cantos, near Madrid, at a cost of $16 million. As part of the project, the German firm has increased staffing at the site by 20% to 170. Tres Cantos is Merck’s primary location for producing the active substances for the fertility treatment Gonal-f and growth hormone disorder treatment Saizen. Merck says it has invested about $275 million in health care manufacturing during 2016.

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