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Chr. Hansen and Lonza’s newly branded joint venture, Bacthera, receives anti-trust approvals to start contract manufacturing of live biotherapeutic products

Chr. Hansen and Lonza’s newly branded joint venture, Bacthera, receives anti-trust approvals to start contract manufacturing of live biotherapeutic products

​Chr. Hansen Holding A/S, a leading global bioscience company, and Lonza AG, a leading pharma contract manufacturing company, announce today that they have received the relevant approvals from anti-trust regulators needed to establish the 50/50 joint venture in the emerging market for live biotherapeutic products, which was originally announced in Company Announcement No. 04 on April 2, 2019.

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