Pfizer invests to meet growing demand for COVID-19 antivirals

7 June 2022
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Leading coronavirus vaccine manufacturer Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) is to spend $120 million boosting its capacity to produce its COVID-19 antiviral, Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir/ritonavir).

The money will be invested at the New York-based company’s existing site in Kalamazoo, Michigan, expanding production of the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) used in the product.

Pfizer said the development will create more than 250 additional high-skilled jobs, and that it was part of the firm’s strategic goal of bringing more key biopharmaceutical manufacturing capacity to the USA.

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