Moldovan businessman Ceslav Ciuhrii, the owner of the medicines group Newtone Laboratoires, announced that his group is building its first factory in Romania, at Tomesti - not far from Iasi in the northeastern part of the country, Profit.ro reported.

The factory itself will involve EUR 5 million investments, not including the production equipment, and will be completed by the end of this year.

The factory will have a total surface of 9,500 sqm and is being built on a 3.1-hectare plot. Operations will begin within a year.

The factory will have a production capacity of 24,000 ampoules of 1 and 2 ml per hour, in a maximum of 10 series per month.

It will also have a dosing line of suppositories of 22,000 suppositories per hour, with an individual mass from 1 to 3 grames, in a maximum of 20 series of suppositories per month, and a cream production line of about 3,600 tubes per hour.

Newtone Laboratories also sells the food supplements Imuheptin and Imupurin, the drug Adenoprosin and a range of shampoos, conditioners, and lotions.

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