Merck, a global healthcare company, has announced the opening of its new $120m pharma packaging facility in the Hangzhou Economic and Technology Area (HEDA) in China.
According to Merck, the new 75,000m2 facility will pack the company's medicines for China and the Asia Pacific region.
Joining an integrated, interdependent network of 72 Merck facilities, the HEDA plant can hold up to 16 lines to package pharmaceutical tablets and sterile medicines.
The facility, which has packaging capacity in excess of 300 million packages annually, will also pack products that are used in Merck's clinical studies and in its commercial activities to support future new product launches.
The new facility is said to be compliant with the quality, environmental, safety and compliance standards that all manufacturing facilities of the company present worldwide claim to meet.
Merck built its first China plant in 1994 in Hangzhou.
