The GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) mission is to improve the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better and live longer. The company develops innovative medicines and products that help millions of people around the world The GSK site at Barnard Castle is a key member of the Global Manufacturing and Supply division and produces some of the world’s leading sterile, inhaled and tropical oral medicines. The site makes over 40 different products, exporting more than 90% of 200 million packs produced each year.
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30 Mar 2021
County Durham’s Glaxo to help make 60 million doses of new Covid vaccine
Source: The Northern Echo A County Durham firm is to support manufacturing of up to 60 million doses of a new Coronavirus vaccine. Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, which employs about 1,100 people at its site in Barnard Castle, will provide ‘fill…
GSK and Sanofi agree with the UK government to supply up to 60 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine
Sanofi and GSK have reached an agreement, subject to final contract, with the UK government for the supply of up to 60 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine candidate, developed by Sanofi in partnership with GSK, is based…
GlaxoSmithKline, in Barnard Castle, enter vaccine collaboration to fight Covid-19
One of the region's biggest employers has joined forces with a fellow pharmaceutical company to develop a vaccine in the fight against coronavirus. GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) which has a site on Harmire Road, in Barnard Castle, has signed a letter of…
GSK and Sanofi join forces to work on coronavirus vaccine
Two of the world’s biggest vaccine companies have joined forces in an “unprecedented” collaboration to develop a Covid-19 vaccine. GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi, which combined have the largest vaccine manufacturing capability in the world, are working together on a hi-tech vaccine…