Wake County in North Carolina is actively working to recruit life sciences companies. Those efforts are proving successful. Amgen (Nasdaq:AMGN) recently broke ground on a $550 million biomanufacturing plant in Holly Springs, a town of about 41,000 in the county. The company anticipates that the facility will be operational in 2025. In October, Fujifilm Diosynth…
Lilly to invest $1B in new plant in North Carolina
Eli Lilly and Co. (NYSE:LLY) said it would invest more than $1 billion to build a new manufacturing facility in Concord, North Carolina. The company says it would hire almost 600 new employees to staff the new site, which will include a campus of five buildings focused on manufacturing parenteral (injectable) products and devices. The…