Sandoz opens two new facilities; Gates Foundation funds needle-free vaccines; Novartis expands Japanese site

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San­doz in­au­gu­rat­ed two sep­a­rate fa­cil­i­ties in Aus­tria and Ger­many ded­i­cat­ed to the pro­duc­tion of peni­cillin and the de­vel­op­ment of biosim­i­lars, re­spec­tive­ly. The gener­ic drug­mak­er in­vest­ed €150 mil­lion ($163 mil­lion) in the Aus­tri­an site and €25 mil­lion ($27 mil­lion) in the Ger­man site. The open­ings “reaf­firm the dual San­doz com­mit­ment to en­sur­ing sus­tain­able ac­cess to qual­i­ty an­tibi­otics and spear­head­ing de­vel­op­ment of biosim­i­lars,” the com­pa­ny said in a Nov. 10 re­lease.

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