Supram Begins Construction of New Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plant in County Kilkenny, Ireland

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Researched by Protel Associates Limited in alliance with Industrial Info Europe (Galway, Ireland)--Supram Limited, formed by French pharmaceutical company Les Laboratoires Servier (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) to develop a new active pharmaceutical ingredients plant in County Kilkenny, Ireland, has had its planning application upheld on appeal by the Irish national planning appeals board, An Bord Pleanala. Site preparation is well under way.

The French firm has had a major presence in Ireland for some time in Arklow, where the company's subsidiary Servier Industries (Ireland) Limited operates as both an Irish HQ and secondary pharmaceuticals-production unit.

The Supram unit will include a major six-story development, including four floors dedicated to active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) production, with a multi-product production area comprising clean-area facilities and support utilities in a 6,363-square-metre development.

A site study for the plant began in 2006. Servier originally evaluated a site in Waterford, but eventually settled on the Industrial Development Agency's Belview site in County Kilkenny. A joint venture between Technip (OTC:TKPPY) (Paris, France) and DPS Engineering Limited (Dublin, Ireland) is providing design-build services for the $182 million project. Completion is scheduled for June 2011.

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