SOURCE: Industrial Info Resources

April 14, 2008 06:00 ET

Alexion Pharmaceutical Hopes the Fourth Time Is a Charm for Smithfield Site, an Industrial Info News Alert

SUGAR LAND, TX--(Marketwire - April 14, 2008) - Reported by Annette Kreuger, Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- The most recent incarnation of the former Dowpharma (NYSE:DOW) (Midland, Michigan) plant in Smithfield, Rhode Island, is now complete. Alexion Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ALXN) (Cheshire, Connecticut) has made a capital investment of $80 million into renovating the 60,000-square-foot plant for the production of its blood disorder drug, Soliris. The company is hoping it will fare better than the 15-year-old site's previous three owners, all of whom watched their ambitious plans turn to dust.

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