MSD invests $500M in Tuas, boosting next-gen inhaler and vaccine production.

MSD (Merck & Co.) has recently doubled-down on its 72-acre campus with two linked builds that turbo-charges it's Asia-Pacific supply of oncology, vaccine and respiratory products.

🔷 Investment: Over the past number of years, MSD have invested close to US $500 million, lifting MSD’s lifetime spend in Singapore beyond US $2 billion.
🔷 The investment has included a secondary packaging + sterile fill-finish lines which opened in 2022 and an inhaler production plant for next-generation devices which is expected by by completed next year.
🔷>100 advanced-manufacturing roles have been added, taking headcount past 1,800 in the region
🔷The projects has resulted in a fully-automated packaging, an upgraded IT/OT stack and green-utilities spend align with MSD’s global sustainability roadmap.

PlantQuest Insight: MSD’s modular “add-on” strategy shows how brownfield hubs can be future-proofed for both biologics and combination devices—the environment where digital asset-visibility pays off.

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