Hovione meets increased demand during Covid

Dr Paul Downing, general manager of Hovione in Cork, reflects on the values driving the company’s years of global success

Hovione staff donating hand sanitiser to a St John’s Ambulance crew. Hovione donated 65MT free of charge to over 150 institutions with the help of charities, local community groups, private nursing homes, local hospitals, sporting clubs, and An Garda Síochána, who dispensed the sanitiser in Templemore Training Centre into smaller bottles for HSE-run nursing homes across the country.

When news of a global pandemic broke Hovione, a contract pharmaceutical manufacturing company which helps bring new and off-patent drugs to market, adapted and responded almost immediately.

Guy Villax, CEO of Hovione, and An Tánaiste Simon Coveney, in 2019 celebrating the company’s 60th anniversary and the 10th anniversary of the site operating in Cork.