Laboratorios Intervet in Spain

15 October 2003

Laboratorios Intervet S.A is located in Salamanca, a city with plenty of monuments and where one of the oldest universities in the world was set up back in the 13th century. UNESCO recently declared it a World Heritage City. Salamanca has a population of 170,000 people, a high percentage of them university students, and is situated in the northwest corner of the Iberian Peninsula, some 200 km from Madrid. 

Intervet began to operate in Spain in 1974, after buying a small local laboratory with an area of 3,000 m2, 1,200 m2 of which were buildings. This was subsequently renamed Laboratorios Intervet S.A. Back then the company had a workforce of just 30 people employed in administration, production and commercialisation of pharmaceutical specialities for veterinary use in the domestic market. However, the development of Laboratorios Intervet S.A. has run parallel to the growth of Intervet globally, and nowadays it employs 250 people across various departments, 
which are now situated on a 28,000-m2 site, 20,000 m2 of which are buildings. The production activities are an integral part of Intervet’s global production and products made in Spain are sold all over the world. 

The Production Department, which has 175 employees, has grown rapidly during the last ten years, being today regarded as a cornerstone in Intervet’s global production strategy. It has state-of-the-art production facilities for vaccines, including equipment to produce live and inactivated vaccines for poultry, mammals and fish. The antigens used to produce the various viral and bacterial vaccines are obtained from fertile chicken eggs, from cell cultures and by means of bioreactors. Its biological production capacity is one of the biggest of its kind in the world. 
The rapid expansion of aquaculture in recent years in many parts of the world resulted in Intervet’s decision to develop fish vaccines to help the industry. With this in mind, much of Intervet’s aquatic animal vaccine production has now been transferred to Laboratorios Intervet S.A.’s T.C. production facilities. 

The reasons behind Laboratorios Intervet S.A.'s continuous growth are the outstanding results obtained over the years in quality, productivity, 
costs and flexibility. All these achievements have been attained by always complying strictly with GMP, GLP and internal quality systems.