Global supply issues have ALK thinking creatively

The Covid-19 pandemic has seriously unbalanced the global supply chains, causing increasing freight rates and instability. Thinking on its feet, ALK needed to come up with alternative solutions to keep production running. "It might not all look pretty, but we are managing."
Photo: Gregers Tycho/Ritzau/Ritzau Scanpix
Photo: Gregers Tycho/Ritzau/Ritzau Scanpix
BY ALBERT RØNNING-ANDERSSON, TRANSLATED BY DANIEL PEDERSEN

Massive bottlenecking and tough competition to acquire needed components, like filters and sterile bags, have forced the allergy firm ALK to think of creative solutions to avoid production of its vaccines slowing down or coming to a halt.

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