ANIMAL health product manufacturer Zoetis has purchased an eight hectare manufacturing site in Melbourne to expand its current operations and increase future capabilities to manufacture cattle, sheep and horse vaccines.
The site in the Melbourne suburb of Parkville was purchased from the Victorian State Government. It has a rich history of supporting Australian agriculture, going back to the development of a vaccine for blackleg disease in sheep in the 1930s.
Zoetis has been operating at the site since 2004 under a long-term lease, currently producing Ultravac, Pestigard and Vibrovax…