Fujifilm chasing Samsung, WuXi with big biopharma plans

TOKYO – Japan’s Fujifilm has announced plans to invest approximately 200 billion yen (US$1.45 billion) to expand its biopharmaceutical production capacity by 3.7 times over the next five years.

Management expects this to support a 3.3 times increase in annual Bio-CDMO revenue to 500 billion yen ($3.7 billion) by the end of the decade. Bio-CDMO is short for Biologics Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization – an organization that serves pharmaceutical companies that cannot afford to or prefer not to invest in their own production facilities.

Fujifilm is the third East Asian CDMO to announce a major expansion plan, the others being China’s WuXi Biologics and South Korea’s Samsung Biologics. By the end of the decade, these and other East Asian companies are likely to have a defining presence in the industry.

The 200 billion yen will be spent on a new building, bioreactors, purification facilities and other equipment at the company’s manufacturing complex in Denmark, making it the largest end-to-end CDMO facility in Europe.

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China won’t Laos become a Belt and Road debt trap

A promotional poster for the 414-kilometer Laos-China railway project that promises to transform Laos from landlocked to land-linked. Photo: Facebook

Laos people unprecedented financial problems, including US$14. 5 billion worth associated with public and publicly guaranteed debt — around half of that is owed to Cina. But unlike Sri Lanka, there is no chance that Laos will default on its external debt obligations. China, its largest lender and political best friend, will not let Laos default. The size of […]

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