The Junta de Castilla y León and the multinational company Novartis will promote the “most modern in Europe” nuclear medicine factory in the town of Castellanos de Moriscos in Salamanca. The company’s new plant will be operational in 24 months after an investment of 12.9 million euros and will have the capacity to manufacture some 30,000 doses per year, of which 25 percent will be destined for export, according to data offered this Tuesday. by its president, Jesús Ponce, during the presentation ceremony.
The meeting took place in the Territorial Delegation of Salamanca with the participation of the president of the Junta de Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, the Minister of Health, Alejandro Vázquez, and the mayor of Castellanos de Moriscos, María Victoria Manjón. Mañueco stressed that the regional government is determined to lay a “red carpet” for those who want to “invest, investigate, innovate and grow” in the Community and affirmed its intention to “consolidate the strategic axis in the fight against cancer” represented by the province of Salamanca.