Chugai to make big investment in new bio manufacturing facilities

31 May 2023

Japanese drugmaker Chugai Pharmaceuticals (TYO: 4519) has decided to invest over 50 billion yen ($356 million) in total for two new manufacturing facilities at the Utsunomiya plant.

Chugai, which is majority-owned by Swiss pharma giant Roche (ROG: SIX), will construct a new bio active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) manufacturing building and injection building in the Utsunomiya Plant (Utsunomiya City, Tochigi Prefecture) of Chugai Pharma Manufacturing Co.

The new bio-API manufacturing building (UT3) will target the clinical development stage to initial commercial production by establishing a new facility for middle to later-stage manufacturing of investigational drugs, including Phase 1 and 2 projects.

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