BIZCHINA / Overseas Investment

AstraZeneca to expand production
(China Daily)
Updated: 2006-05-19 10:45

World-leading pharmaceutical maker AstraZeneca plans an additional investment of 300 million yuan (US$37.5 million) over the next five years to expand its production capacity in China and upgrade its manufacturing technologies.

The company will expand its drug packaging capacity to 40 million boxes in its Wuxi plant with a new drug-packaging production line. The 31-million yuan plant in East China's Jiangsu Province is the company's only production base in China and its largest in Asia.

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