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Pfizer to Close Two UK Mfg. Sites

Hospira fill/finish site and cold chain packaging site to close by 2020, impacting 370 jobs

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By: Kristin Brooks

Managing Editor, Contract Pharma

Pfizer plans to close two of its three manufacturing plants in the UK during the next four years, which may affect as many as 370 jobs. Pfizer will retain a manufacturing site in south London.   The Park Royal site in London, which Pfizer gained from the Hospira acquisition in September, is set to close by May 2017, impacting 100 employees. The site fills vials, which are then sold to hospitals. Also, Pfizer’s global cold chain packaging and distribution site in Havant, which employs 270...

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