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GEA shipping systems to Chinese business

24-Aug-2009

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GEA Lyophil has won a contract to supply €15m ($21.5m) worth of pharmaceutical freeze dryers with automatic load and unload systems (ALUS) to a Chinese manufacturer.

The order, which consists of seven freeze dryers and five ALUS systems, will be supplied to Zheiiang Hisun Pharmaceutical for use in its facility in Fuyang in eastern China.

Hisun is planning to invest more than €100m in its Fuyang facility to make it one of the biggest pharma production sites in China. Once the expansion is complete Hisun will have capacity to produce anti-tumour, anti-infectives and biologics for the domestic and international markets.

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