Aventis Pasteur to increase capacities in France and USA.
December 6, 2002 7:39am
11/25/2002
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Aventis Pasteur is to spend $150 M on increasing its vaccines production
capacities in France and USA. The company has vaccine plants at Marcy-l'Etoile
in France and Swiftwater in Pennsylvania. A vaccines packaging and distribution
depot costing EUR 8.5 M and employing staff of around 1000 has been in operation
at Val-de-Reuil since Mar 2002. Aventis Pasteur has vaccines capacity in France
of 370 M doses/y which is to be increased to 800 M doses/y by 2005. Pasteur
Aventis produced 1.3 bn vaccines doses during 2001. These vaccines give
protection against nineteen specific diseases including measles, rabies and
poliomyelitis.
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