United States-based Pfizer is opening a new manufacturing facility in Andover, Massachusetts, it was reported yesterday.

The facility covers a 175,000 square-foot area. It accommodates commercial manufacturing and product development functions for the development and production of complex biologics and vaccines. The site will offer 75 new jobs for the Andover area economy, adding to the around 2,000 staff currently based in Massachusetts.

The newly opened Andover Clinical Manufacturing Facility will expand the capacity for Pfizer's BioTherapeutics Pharmaceutical Sciences organization to manufacture clinical supplies. The company's ACMF investment is more than USD200m and includes five independent manufacturing suites, with more than 50 projects currently in development.