WuXi AppTec Expands Global Manufacturing Capacity with New US, Europe Investments

To meet growing customer demand globally, WuXi AppTec is increasing its capital expenditure at least 17% in 2026 to between RMB 6.5 billion and RMB 7.5 billion, as the company looks to add new drug substance and drug product manufacturing capacity over the next two years in Asia, Europe, and the United States.

Among its infrastructure investments, the contract research, development, and manufacturing organization (CRDMO) will begin operations later this year at a new 1.74 million-square-foot plant in Middletown, Delaware, which will be WuXi AppTec’s largest U.S. facility.

The Delaware drug product site, which will serve the CRDMO’s North American market, is scheduled to start operations in the fourth quarter of 2026 for oral solid dosage manufacturing — with plans to expand into sterile/injectable production in the fourth quarter of 2027.

In Europe, WuXi AppTec is boosting its drug product manufacturing and packaging capacity in Couvet, Switzerland — which the company contends is designed to support growing commercial demand, with a new PSD-4 spray dryer slated to become operational in the fourth quarter of 2026.