alt Hacker News6 plants are allowed to make it. Everyone else thought the licensing fee was too high.
Unless you are referring to natural botanical plants, in which case, Pine Trees and turpentine is a good alternative found. IANAL but it would still need to find a way around the Ibuprofen compound patent.
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hermanzegerman • yesterday at 10:33 PM
What licensing fee? There aren't any patent protections on Ibuprofen anymore. It's a generic for a very long time.
Also last time there was a shortage, one american BASF plant went down and they had trouble for almost a year before they could resume production
> 6 plants are allowed to make it. Everyone else thought the licensing fee was too high
What licensing fee? It's an old, generic medicine. Anyone who wanted to set up an Ibuprofen manufacturing plant could do so relatively easily.
The reason more plants aren't coming online is that Ibuprofen is a couple pennies per pill at retail prices. There isn't money in making more ibuprofen.