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History
Curida was established when a group of employees and management acquired the Takeda manufacturing site in Elverum, Norway in 2015. The acquisition followed Takeda’s decision to shut the site down and move all manufacturing to other parts of Europe. The manufacturing site, which has existed since 1974, had been part of Nycomed until 2011.
Under Takeda, the Elverum site had around 200 employees and was the largest private employer of the area. Curida started out with a smaller operation at its inception in 2015. Since then the site has experienced significant growth in terms of both revenue and employment, and it will in the near future approach the size it saw at its historic peak in 2013.
The employees showed great courage when starting their own company under uncertain conditions in 2014 and 2015. Before Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg reopened the Elverum site under the Curida name on July 1st 2015, the employees had put more than 10,000 hours of volunteer work into making the new company a reality.
The employees and management remained the only owners of Curida until December 2017, when Norwegian family offices Canica and Klaveness Marine invested in Curida. Shortly after, the Norwegian governmental investment fund Investinor and family office Stokke Industri followed. The employees and management still control more than 20 percent of the shares in Curida.
In 2018, to increase the Norwegian footprint, Curida acquired Ås Produksjonslab, located south of Oslo. Ås Produksjonslab performs fill and finish of bottle products for the Norwegian pharmacy market.
Contact
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Contact us to learn more about our pharmaceutical development or manufacturing solutions. We look forward to discussing your next project with you! Our customers range from academic research, start-ups and early stage Biotech companies, to Big Pharma.
Curida Elverum
Solbærvegen 5
2409 Elverum
Norway
+47 62 42 83 00
post@curida.no
Director, Ås produksjonslab
Ørjan L. Apeland
orjan.apeland@aasproduksjonslab.no
Customer service, raw materials
Mette Stenstad
mette.stenstad@curida.no
Ås Produksjonslab
Gamleveien 2
1434 Ås
Norway
post@aasproduksjonslab.no
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