ALTANA opens pharmaceutical production facility in Ireland
ALTANA Pharma performed the official opening of a new tablet production facility in Cork (Ireland) in the presence of the Irish Prime Minister, Mr. Bertie Ahern. The new plant will play an important role in ALTANA Pharma's global production network and provide extended capacity for the manufacturing of existing and future products.
"The facility in Cork means that in addition to Oranienburg (Germany) ALTANA Pharma will have a second state-of-the-art, high-quality manufacturing site for solid formulations meeting the strictest international standards. This will provide greater flexibility and security in terms of supplying the market with our strategically important products," commented Dr. Hans-Joachim Lohrisch, CEO of ALTANA Pharma AG, at the official opening ceremony.
The tablet manufacturing facility on the eleven hectare plot in the Carrigtohill Industrial Park in Cork required an investment of EUR67 million. As of today the company employs 56 people. At full operational level some 150 employees will be able to produce three billion tablets a year.
With demand for ALTANA's Pantoprazole, currently the most successful medicine from a German research laboratory and used in the treatment of acid-related gastrointestinal disorders, still rising, Cork will complement the production site in Oranienburg as a second tabletting site within the Pantoprazole supply chain.
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