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Industrial relief site opens to serve as base
The government has opened an industrial relief centre at Rong Kluea Market in the Pratunam Phra-in area of Ayutthaya’s Wang Noi district.
Flood-ravaged industrial operators can use the site as a temporary production and warehousing base while rehabilitating and restoring their production facilities.
The centre covers 20,000 square metres, 12,000 of which are outdoor. It is aimed at helping those enterprises in Ayutthaya and Pathum Thani provinces that were hit by the devastating floods late last year.
Witoon Simachokedee, permanent secretary for the Industry Ministry, said the site cost 40 million baht and will offer a place to set up offices, make products and store raw materials and damaged equipment pending repair or demolition.
The site has a multi-purpose building and vacant space for 30 containers, which it will offer free for the first six months. Over 150 affected operators have expressed interest in using the relief centre.
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Small Talk: Spin-offs may offer silver lining in sad saga of Pfizer site
The pharmaceutical sector suffered a blow this week when the US drug maker Pfizer announced the closure of its research and development site at Sandwich in Kent, putting around 2,400 jobs at risk.
The site, which has been in the Pfizer fold for more than half a century, has had some notable success, including the development of Viagra, the company’s successful impotence drug. It was also behind the Norvasc heart drug, and Celsentri, the HIV/Aids treatment.
The closure was lamented by politicians and scientists alike. Days afterwards, GlaxoSmithKline signalled that while it was not interested in the physical site, it may well be keen on some of the skilled scientists at work in Sandwich. “And, of course, we’d be interested in great ideas if there are those there to be spun out,” GSK chief executive Andrew Witty said.
So, what are the prospects for a new crop of small businesses to emerge from this sad move?
Though hard to gauge, it may be worth looking at the fate of AstraZeneca’s research centre in Charnwood, Leicestershire.
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