He said he was optimistic, but the manufacturers would have to boost their production capacity and massive vaccination campaigns would have to be organised.
For Solazyme, which has skin care and nutritional supplement lines, the arrangement provides a boost in production capacity "to meet the strong demand we're seeing in our initial target markets," said Jonathan Wolfson, the company's chief executive.
But although more practical and cleaner, cell-based vaccines don't promise a major boost in production capacity.
The cash is aimed at boosting its production capacity by some 300,000 units a year in a bid to better compete with global rivals, the Japanese business daily Nikkei said.
Since it went public five years ago, the now $180 million (sales) company has added 6,000 employees, seven factories and 190 production lines, and boosted its production capacity from 3.2 billion gloves a year to a recent 20.7 billion.
LG Display announced today that it will invest 7.8 trillion won (about $7 billion) to boost its OLED production capacity.
Over the next five years it will invest $129 billion to boost its oil production capacity to 12 million barrels a day, build new refineries and petrochemical plants and pursue a high-tech exploration and production program.
In 1936 this informal request for major manufacturing facilities was turned into a formal scheme to boost British aircraft production capacity under the leadership of Herbert Austin, known as the Shadow factory plan.
DataWind is hopeful that by mid-January they will boost up the factory's production capacity to 3,000 tablets per day.
The most common strategy to reduce waiting times is to increase the supply throughout, on the one hand the enhancement of the production capacity (ie, boosting the opening hours of scans to perform more examinations per scan and increase the number of examinations per radiologist), and on the other hand the increase in personnel/equipment or the contracting out.
