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Manufacturing (20 - 21) Manufacture of chemicals and pharmaceuticals 21 - Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations 21 - Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations
350 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
15 April 2019
Employment effect (start)
30 April 2019
Foreseen end date
Description
Pfizer a multinational pharmaceutical company has announced it will be hiring 350 additional employees for its production plant in Puurs, Belgium. The company plans to increase its production at the facility which currently employs around 2,500 people. The facility produces more than 1 million injectable vaccines and medicines every day. The company is looking for employees for both its production and packaging divisions.
Eurofound (2019), Pfizer, Business expansion in Belgium, factsheet number 98332, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/98332.