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> 6 plants are allowed to make it. Everyone else thought the licensing fee was too high What licensing fee? It's an old, generic medicine. Anyone who wanted to
by Aurornis 9mo ago
> 6 plants are allowed to make it. Everyone else thought the licensing fee was too high
What licensing fee? It's an old, generic medicine. Anyone who wanted to set up an Ibuprofen manufacturing plant could do so relatively easily.
The reason more plants aren't coming online is that Ibuprofen is a couple pennies per pill at retail prices. There isn't money in making more ibuprofen.
- hermanzegerman 9mo agoIf there wouldn't be money in it, they wouldn't have invested 200 Millions in a new plant in 2017
- Aurornis 9mo agoThen there must have been a market opportunity. I bet there won't be much opportunity left after that plant comes online.