A Swiss company will break ground on Dec. 15 for a $100 million drug delivery systems plant in Middletown.
Datwyler announced the plant would be used to manufacture high-quality elastomer components for injectable drug delivery systems.
The plant would be built near the Amazon distribution center.
The new, highly automated facility in the USA meets the most stringent quality standards, according to a release.
Production is expected to get underway in the first half of 2018.
The plant when in full operation would employ about 120.
“With its new production site in Delaware, the company will be able to significantly boost its position in the world’s largest pharmaceutical market. The new plant is to be designed, built and run in accordance with Datwyler’s latest “FirstLine” standards. This will make it possible to provide customers in the three key business regions of the USA, Europe, and Asia with locally produced “FirstLine” components in the future,” the company’s release stated.
The Datwyler Group concentrates on markets that offer opportunities to create more value and sustain profitable growth, the release stated.
Delaware has seen some success in attracting European manufacturers to the state. A German building products company opened a plant in Dover and an Irish paper bag firm started operations at a location in the Newark areas.
Datwyler has sales of more than $1 billion, with its stock traded on the Swiss exchange.
