A Novo Nordisk A/S workplace constructing is at risk of collapsing after catching fireplace on the drugmaker’s headquarters complicated in Denmark, lower than every week after a fireplace incident involving one among its different Danish services.
The Wednesday fireplace is now beneath management, although the constructing is “not able to be saved,” a Novo spokesperson stated by electronic mail. The placement isn’t used for manufacturing, Novo stated.
Weight-loss and diabetes medicine Wegovy and Ozempic have remodeled Novo into Europe’s most useful firm, and the drugmaker is investing closely to increase in Denmark and overseas. This week’s fireplace follows a Could 16 blaze on the roof of a constructing beneath building at Novo’s manufacturing hub in Kalundborg, the place the corporate is spending greater than $8 billion to spice up manufacturing.
The Wednesday fireplace broke out outdoors a constructing on the firm’s website in Bagsvaerd within the morning hours, then unfold to an adjoining workplace constructing. Extinguishing continues to be estimated to take one other four-to-six hours, Martin Kjaersgaard, the native fireplace service chief of operations, stated by cellphone round 2:40 p.m. native time. The construction is a “quite large multi-story building” and the danger of its collapse is slowing down extinguishing work. Individuals in surrounding buildings have been evacuated, he stated.
The corporate has a number of places of work in Bagsvaerd, and the principle headquarters constructing was not affected, Novo stated. “All activity in the impacted area is expected to be back to normal tomorrow,” the corporate stated.
Shares of Novo fell as a lot as 2.7% earlier than paring again. The inventory is up 32% year-to-date.
Some 100 firefighters have been on website Wednesday to battle the “massive fire,” Kjaersgaard stated. The smoke from the hearth isn’t poisonous, and there are not any accidents, in line with Novo’s spokeswoman.
Broadcaster TV2 confirmed photographs and video clips of fireplace vehicles arriving on the website in Bagsvaerd earlier on Wednesday, and fighters utilizing drones to assist them as they attempt to extinguish the hearth. The pictures displayed intensifying clouds of smoke, although no flames have been seen.
In a submit on X, the native police pressure stated the hearth was affecting visibility on the Hillerod motorway.
