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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
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Europe’s last penicillin plant faces a bitter fight against China’s cheaper drugs

Kundl: Tucked away in the green foothills of the Austrian Alps, the last fully integrated European penicillin plant faces an uncertain future in the shadow of rising Chinese industrial power.

The reason: China is churning out the same antibiotics and ingredients as the Sandoz factory in Kundl, Austria, at much lower cost for the European market.

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