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Alpharma To Expand Vancomycin Capacity

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By: Tim Wright

Editor-in-Chief, Contract Pharma

Alpharma Pharmaceutical Co. has completed its agreement with Zhejiang Hisun Pharmaceutical Co. (Hisun), doubling its capacity to manufacture one of Hisun’s major APIs, vancomycin, subject to FDA and European regulatory approvals. Vancomycin is for severe gram-positive hospital infections. Alpharma currently manufactures vancomycin at its sites in Copenhagen, Denmark and Budapest, Hungary. “Our partnership with Hisun has been highly productive,” said Carl Aake Carlsson, pr...

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