# Gunze to build new medical factory in Ayabe, Kyoto

Gunze will invest approximately 18 billion yen to build a new medical factory (third factory) and expand R&D facilities at its Ayabe Plant in Kyoto Prefecture, targeting completion in February 2025.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2023-08-17
- Where: Ayabe City, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
- Value: $122.0M (18.0B JPY)
- Starts operating: Feb 2025
- Status: announced
- Products: adhesion prevention material Tenaleaf
- Sectors: [Medical Devices](https://endata.com/sectors/medical-devices.md)

## Companies

- [Gunze](https://endata.com/companies/70236.md)

## Sources

- [en.lnews.jp](https://en.lnews.jp/2023/10/p1017305.html), 2023-08-17: "Gunze announced that, in order to accelerate the growth of its medical business, it will invest in the construction of a new factory (third factory)."

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