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West Breaks Ground on China Mfg. Plant

New packaging site will be located beside injection molding facility in Shanghai.

By: Gil Roth

President, Pharma & Biopharma Outsourcing Association

West Pharmaceutical Services hosted a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the start of construction for a compression molding plant in the Shanghai Qingpu Industrial Zone (SQIZ) in China. The new plant will be adjacent to West’s injection molding facility, which was dedicated in September 2009. The 11,900-sq.-m. plant will manufacture components used for pharmaceutical packaging, supplying customers primarily in China and the Asia-Pacific region. It is slated to begin production in January 2013. “...

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