Pfizer’s new pharmaceutical manufacturing plant will be built at the Industrial Valley, King Abdullah Economic City, on the west coast of the Red Sea, north of Jeddah.
The new plant, which will occupy a total 32,234 m2 space, includes manufacturing, packaging, and warehousing facilities and is expected to be operational by 2015.
Expected to produce 18 million packs per year, the new plant will develop a broad range of Pfizer’s medicines currently supplied to the Kingdom.
Pfizer vice president operations Keith Dennie said the new facility aims to serve the growing needs of the Kingdom now and in the future.
"This is the first such partnership that Pfizer has established in the GCC, and one that we hope is a foundation for the future," Dennie added.