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Manufacturing (20 - 21) Manufacture of chemicals and pharmaceuticals 21 - Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations 21 - Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations
500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
5 March 2009
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Octopharma, one of the world's largest privately owned processors of plasma and makers of blood products, is to establish a plasma processing laboratory in Poland which will employ 500 persons. The general outline of this project was presented to the Polish government in the spring 2008; as of March 2009, there i no information on the location of the laboratory, the timeframe for its completion and the employment start date.
Sources
5 March 2009: Polska Agencja Prasowa Webside (www.pap.pl)
Citation
Eurofound (2009), Octopharma, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 68469, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/68469.