Neolpharma, a Mexican pharmaceutical group specializing in the production of generic medicines and contract manufacturing, opened operations yesterday in Caguas in a plant that used to be owned by Pfizer. The company might be a new business model for Puerto Rico, for the research and development market of "differentiated generics", a type of off-patent medicines that are more technically challenging to produce than regular generics. Neolpharma relocated to Puerto Rico, despite higher production costs, because of the talent pool of potential workers.

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