A Sanofi logo sits connected the facade of the company's office connected December 11, 2020 successful Gentilly adjacent Paris, France.
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SINGAPORE — French pharmaceutical elephantine Sanofi connected Wednesday opened a 800 cardinal Singapore dollar ($595 million) "evolutive vaccine facility," oregon EVF, successful Singapore — the lone specified installation the institution has extracurricular of France.
This plant, known arsenic Modulus, tin power betwixt making antithetic vaccines oregon treatments successful a substance of days, compared to respective weeks oregon months successful much accepted facilities. It is besides capable to beryllium adapted to manufacture up to 4 vaccines oregon biopharmaceuticals simultaneously.
The installation volition lend astir 200 jobs to the city-state, including bioprocess engineers, automation specialists and information analysts, and volition beryllium afloat operational by mid-2026.
Sanofi said successful a merchandise that the installation holds the imaginable to importantly bolster pandemic preparedness.
"By establishing the groundwork for important accumulation modules now, Modulus tin guarantee a swift and targeted effect to immoderate aboriginal wellness needs, including imaginable pandemics," the institution said.
This is portion of the company's 900 cardinal euro concern to make 2 caller EVFs globally implicit 5 years. The different EVF is in Neuville-sur-Saône, France.
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