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DuPont Expands Healthcare Manufacturing Site in Costa Rica, Adding Sterile Packaging Capacity
DuPont (NYSE: DD) today announced that it has expanded its sterile operations via an addition to its healthcare manufacturing facility in Heredia, Costa Rica, enabling the site to produce sterile packaging for the global medical device industry while also increasing the capacity of the site's existing medical tubing operations.
About this update from Dupont De Nemours, Inc.
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