The President of Sanofi’s Global Operations, Hanspeter Spek, stated this during his recent visit to Vietnam.
Sanofi’s third plant is likely to be built in Ho Chi Minh City .Work will begin this year and the plant is expected to becomeoperational by 2015.
Sanofi’s first two plants, also in HoChi Minh City , are now running at maximum capacity, but they have notbeen able to keep up with the demand for their products.
Currently, 80 percent of Sanofi’s products manufactured in Vietnamare sold in the domestic market, the rest are exported to other Asiancountries.
Sanofi is one of the world’s leading healthcare groups. In 2011, the group posted a revenue is 34 billion EUR.-VNA