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Abbott Will Build Manufacturing Plant in Costa Rica
Source: Nacion.com
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
With a $50 million investment, Abbott Laboratories will build a Catheters Manufacturing Plant in the tax-free zone of El Coyol de Alajuela.
It is possible that the construction work of the 16,000 square meters plant ends on 2012.
This information was presented by the minister of Foreign Trade (Comex), Anabel González; the second vice president of Costa Rica, Luis Liberman; the executive director of CINDE, (Costa Rica Investments’ Promotion Agency) Gabriela Llobet, and the vice minister of Comex, Fernando Ocampo.
"In a first phase.., the company will start operations with 500 workers and it will increase to 3,000 in the medium term.", states Nacion.com