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Sawai Cites Broader Supply Issue As It Plots Construction Of A New Facility

New Solid Dosage Form Facility Planned At Its Local Daini Kyushu Site

 
• By Dean Rudge

Japan’s Sawai was cautioned by one analyst earlier this year that it lacked sufficient excess production capacity to handle the sharp expansion in demand for its products. Now the company has announced plans to build a new solid dosage form facility.

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Sawai is looking to achieve its production goals • Source: Alamy

Japanese player Sawai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. has unveiled plans to build a new solid dosage form facility at its local Daini Kyushu site, citing an increase in demand for its products that has followed supply and quality issues that have plagued the Japanese generics industry this year, as well as to “strengthen production capacity in response to further market expansion of generic drugs in the future.”

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