Helvoet Pharma to open rubber unit in India
ERJ staff report (DS)
Helvoetsluijs, Netherlands -- Helvoet Pharma is to build its own manufacturing plant in India. This, its first operational platform in Asia, will capitalise on its worldwide leadership in pharmaceutical rubber formulations, said the company.
The plant will be fully equipped with state-of-the-art facilities built to Helvoet Pharma's high standards will be operational in 2012. Over the next two years, Helvoet Pharma will spend some 14 million Euros. Construction work for the greenfield production will start in the third quarter of this year. The new plant will be located near Pune (Maharashtra state) in a newly developed industrial zone with a secure energy supply, good transport connections and access to trained personnel. If required, the new facility can be expanded modularly in the future.
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Press release from Helvoet Pharma
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