Wyeth To Build Nutritional Manufacturing Plant In China

Pharmaceutical and health care products company will invest $280 million in a new facility to produce infant formula milk powder and other nutritional products.

MADISON, N.J. — Wyeth has announced that it is investing $280 million to build a state-of-the-art nutritional manufacturing facility in Suzhou Industrial Park, Jiangsu Province, China. The new facility will primarily produce infant formula milk powder and other nutritional products.
 
When completed, the site will be one of the world's largest nutritional manufacturing facilities.
 
Construction at the site started this month, and the plant is scheduled to be operational by late 2010. At full operation, the plant is expected to employ about 500 employees. Products made at this facility will primarily supply the local market.
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