Aspen looks to expand vaccine production in SA beyond Covid-19
Aspen has capacity to produce 1.35-billion vaccine doses at its Gqeberha facility and is now using less than a quarter of that to help make J&J’s Covid-19 shot
02 September 2021 - 17:33
Aspen Pharmacare, SA’s biggest pharmaceutical manufacturer, is in discussions to expand its vaccine production capacity beyond Covid-19 to jabs for other diseases, CEO Stephen Saad said on Thursday.
Aspen has the capacity to produce up to 1.35-billion vaccine doses at its sterile manufacturing facility in Gqeberha, and is currently using less than a quarter of that capacity to help make Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J)’s Covid-19 shot. It aims to ramp up Covid-19 vaccine production from 300-million to 450-million doses a year by February, and to 700-million doses a year by January 2023, but would still have scope to make other kinds of shots, said Saad...
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