EU IRELAND BIOPHARMACEUTICAL GRANT
January 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has authorised the Irish Industrial Development Agency (IDA) to grant Euro 48.25 million to help Centocor Inc. build a biopharmaceutical production plant on a greenfield site at Ringaskiddy, County Cork, Ireland. Brussels approved this state aid saying it would not distort competition within the European Union (EU). Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Centocor wants to manufacture biopharmaceutical active ingredients for human medicines at the plant, using fermentation and purification processes. Also, a special technology ...
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