Manufacturing roundup: Pharmaron secures acquisition of a Rhode Island facility; GSK to open hub in South America
A Chinese pharma company is growing its presence in the US with a newly acquired API manufacturing site.
Pharmaron has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a Coventry, Rhode Island-based API manufacturing site from drug manufacturer Noramco, which was previously owned by Johnson & Johnson and now owned by the private equity firm SK Capital.
According to Pharmaron, the site has an established history of API manufacturing from pilot kilogram to commercial metric ton scales. However, according to The People’s Radio, an NPR station covering Rhode Island and parts of Massachusetts, the facility was formerly owned by a subsidiary of Purdue Pharmaceuticals called Rhodes Technologies and was known for making opioid products. According to that report, because of Purdue’s 2019 bankruptcy filing, the Coventry factory was sold to Noramco, another opioid ingredient manufacturer.
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