# Merck inaugurates new packaging building at Aubonne biotech site

Merck inaugurated a new packaging building at its biotech manufacturing site in Aubonne, Switzerland, on June 29, 2017. The CHF 27 million investment will handle visual inspection, secondary packaging, and shipping of biotech medicines to over 150 countries.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2017-06-29
- Where: Aubonne, Switzerland, Switzerland
- Value: $28.0M (27.0M CHF)
- Jobs: 200
- Starts operating: 29 Jun 2017
- Status: completed
- Capacity: 12 million boxes of medicines and 4 million injection devices per year
- Products: biotech medicines, injection devices
- Sectors: [Medical Devices](https://endata.com/sectors/medical-devices.md)

## Companies

- [Merck](https://endata.com/companies/1841.md)

## Sources

- [merckgroup.com](https://www.merckgroup.com/en/news/inauguration-aubonne-2017-06-29.html), 2017-06-29: "This state-of-the-art new packaging building demonstrates Merck's technological leadership in biotech manufacturing."

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